Susan Sowerby

-I wish you were my mother!- said Colin.
She put both her hands on Mistress Mary's shoulders and looked her little face over in a motherly fashion.
Susan Sowerby is the mother of Martha and Dickon as well as ten other children. Susan Sowerby functions as a symbol for the concept of motherhood itself. Mary and Colin never really had mother figures and Mrs. Sowerby steps into the role perfectly, making them fe