Ronald Devereux and Babe St. Maur

Ronald Devereux and Babe St. Maur’s engagement gives a personal motive to the secret work surrounding his death: after losing him, Babe joined the effort to find his murderer. Their relationship is revealed alongside her concealed identity as Countess Radzky, connecting private grief to the society’s investigation.

Engagement and Loss

Babe says that she and Ronald Devereux were engaged. His death therefore marks more than the loss of a fellow member of the Seven Dials Society: it leaves Babe with a direct personal reason to pursue the killer. She explains that tracking down the person who murdered him was why she had to act, distinguishing her involvement from mere amusement or excitement.

Superintendent Battle identifies Devereux as one of the society’s numbered members and describes him as a young man who died for his country. His place is empty at the gathering where the membership is explained. That absence gives the relationship’s account a concrete setting: Babe is present among the living investigators, while the man she had expected to marry is represented by a vacant place.

Babe St. Maur’s Hidden Role

At the reveal, Bundle Brent recognizes the beautiful, dark-haired Countess Radzky, and Bill Eversleigh identifies her as Babe St. Maur. Battle explains that a woman had taken the society’s No. 1 place after Gerald Wade; Babe’s emergence clarifies that the apparent foreign countess was the woman serving in that position. Her connection to Devereux thus belongs both to their engagement and to the secret organization investigating the deaths.

Babe’s assumed persona depended on performance. She says she could manage the accent because her parents came from that part of Europe, but recalls nearly exposing herself at the Abbey while talking about gardens. The detail makes her concealment practical rather than effortless: even someone capable of sustaining the role could come close to betraying it in ordinary conversation.

Grief as an Objective

Babe’s explanation recasts her participation in the investigation. She acknowledges that the work was not simply fun, then links it to Devereux’s death and her determination to identify his killer. The society’s numbered places and false identities can make its operations seem like a game; her account supplies the personal cost beneath that surface.

The relationship is disclosed only as the investigation’s identities are being explained, so engagement, bereavement, and secret service converge in a single revelation. Devereux’s place remains empty, while Babe’s presence shows what his death set in motion: she continues the work in which he was involved, driven not just by the group’s cause but by the murder of the man she had planned to marry.