 When Nesta first appears, in "The Little Nugget", she is the divorced wife of Elmer Ford, struggling to wrest from her former spouse the control of their son Ogden, on whom Nesta dotes.She has large brown eyes, which are normally hard and imperious, but often soften on contemplation of her boy, who she sometimes refers to as 'Oggie' and who she spoils terribly.After a dramatic appearance in the opening scene, Mrs Pett spends much of the story off stage on a cruise in the Mediterranean, her schemes to retrieve her beloved boy being carried out through a chain of intermediaries.