Choose the Mysterious Character - Jean Hexam

Who is the mysterious guest visiting Professor Ashcroft at the beginning of The Interactive Novel. Read the extract below and decide if it is Jean Hexam

With a sense of dread, I followed the Professor into the parlour. A teenage girl sat in the chair by the empty hearth. Impassively she watched us take the chairs opposite. She was small, delicate, the very personification of a pixie. Her hair was dark and cut short. Her green eyes flicked between us, scrutinising us in every minute detail. I could feel her weighting us up getting the measure of us. It was an uncomfortable feeling.

“And you happen to be?” the Professor asked breaking the silence.

The girl’s gaze settled on the Professor

“My name is Jean Hexam.”

“Hexam?” the Professor repeated. “As in Christopher Hexam?”

“Yes. He was my father.”

“Was?”

She nodded.

“I am sorry to hear. He was a good man.”

“Well now he is a dead man,” she said matter-of-factly. She saw the look of surprise in our eyes. “Please don’t misunderstand me. I loved my father and I will grieve him, but now is not the time. He would not want me to which so much at stake. My father taught me that at times emotions are a weakness that can smoother clear thought and dull the wits. And now I need my wits and help like never before.”

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