Catherine Albright

Catherine is Kate Albright's daughter, raised in her mother's establishment yet sheltered from its true nature through careful management of her understanding. She is conventional and proper, valuing respectability and social standing above all else. Catherine represents a tragic consequence of her mother's manipulations—a young woman incapable of genuine autonomy because her entire understanding of the world has been carefully constructed and controlled by her mother. She is neither villainous nor particularly virtuous, but rather trapped by circumstances she does not fully comprehend.