Hermione 'Hermy' Pillson

Hermione 'Hermy' Pillson is a recurring character of Mapp & Lucia. She's the sister of George 'Georgie' and Ursula 'Ursy' Pillson.

Overview
Hermione Pillson, Hermy for short, is the sister of Georgie and Ursula Pillson. Both sisters were plain, strapping and hearty and apparently sounded not like a she but a he. They adored otter hunting and Georgie observed that Hermy could be very sarcastic when not otter hunting - as in August when it was not possible. They also liked pigs, dogs and mutton chops. As such, they were rather a discordant element in Riseholme.

Hermy and Ursy enjoyed golf, stunts such as cycling down from town for a lark, their lean Irish terrier Tiptree and testing the patience of their indulgent brother Georgie.

In addition, they were at times rather too forward with Georgie's loyal staff, referring to his handsome chauffeur as Dickie-bird and the estimable Foljambe as an iceberg and even Fol-de-rol-de-ray. Once, they mistakenly subjected her to a booby trap of mixed biscuits and Brazil nuts intended for Georgie. Naturally Foljambe rose above the indignity with inpenetrable calm.

Unlike the creme de Riseholme, Hermy and Ursy did not join in the Guruism promoted by Lucia that reigned supreme in the village throughout that August; in fact, ignoring the guru, they pronounced the whole thing piffle and enjoyed disrupting Georgie's mono-pedal practice on the lawn with discordant cries of "Om"!

Ultimately, it was Hermy and Ursy who eventually saw and recognised the guru as a hard-drinking curry-cook from the Calcutta Restaurant in Bedford Street and advised that he came from Madras, but was no more a Brahmin than Foljambe. Contrary to their initial plan to reveal all and humiliate Lucia, Georgie persuaded his sisters to leave next morning without publicising the guru's deception.