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Meet Miss Prism
Miss Prism is Cecily Cardew’s prim, moralizing governess at the Manor House, where she instructs her young charge in proper conduct and often speaks in maxims. She is also quietly attracted to Dr. Chasuble, the local cleric.
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A prim, respectable spinster governess of middle age with a severe, tidy appearance; hair drawn back plainly, possibly spectacled, and dressed in sober, high-necked dark clothing befitting her station — a modest 1890s day dress with little ornament.
