The first instance of this is in "The Hippopotamus Pool" when she and Walter are going through marital troubles after their latest child dies in infancy. Already in Egypt, Radcliffe proposes that she and Walter be given distraction to help them through it. While in Egypt, Evelyn takes a particular shine to David Todros, a young Egyptian boy working for a professional forger, who is also an amazingly talented artist. After he runs away, Walter and Evelyn adopt him and take him back to England. A few years later, when David and her daughter Lia fall in love, she and Walter are initially resistant to the idea of them marrying, but overcome their objections, again with Amelia's prodding. Walter and Evelyn had six children: Radcliffe Junior ("Raddie"), twin brothers Johnny (killed in the First World War) and Willy, Amelia Junior ("Lia"), Margaret, and the above-mentioned baby that dies in infancy. Evelyn also miscarries at least once. Evelyn appears a contrast to Amelia in every way: fair where Amelia is dark, demure where Amelia is direct. She dotes on her children and her husband, and has a generous heart - many of her maidservants are down-on-their-luck girls who have been thrown out of other establishments or fallen on hard times. Yet underneath, she has nerves of steel and a ruthlessly logical mind. In "The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog", even Amelia, who is used to women being underestimated, is stunned to read a letter account of Evelyn subduing a burglar in her home with a heavy parasol of the kind Amelia herself carries, and to hear Evelyn proposing a possible solution to the mystery that Amelia herself overlooked.