Faye Maffley

From Image Cascade:

Faye Maffley is Kay's overly self-indulgent, self-absorbed mother who wished never to grow old.

"Kay was wearing an orchid blouse with a gray suit. Her mother was wearing exactly the same. The only difference was that Kay was without ornament and Faye, her mother, wore a heavy necklace and a jangly charm bracelet.

Beany exclaimed, "Your mother! Honest?' and then flusteredly, 'How do you do, Mrs. Maffley' only I thought I thought you were Kay's sister.'

"Oh, everyone thinks that," the girl-woman said with a pleased, tinkly laugh. Everyone calls me Faye, no one ever calls me Mrs. Maffley. Everyone takes me for Kay's twin.'

As the car, the color of vanilla ice cream, sped through the rain, Beany's practical mind was doing arithmetic. Kay was sixteen. Her mother must be thirty-six, thirty-four, at least, and she did look sixteen, with that pale riot of hair, with that youngish gray suit with patch pockets. . . ..

...Faye said to Beany, as though she wanted to hear it again, 'So you thought I was Kay's sister... Do you remember the southern colonel, Kay dear, who always referred to us as the winsome twosome? Kay and I have always been chums. We have all our good times together...'" Kay, being the more mature of the two Maffley's, lacked appreciation or affection for her mother, feeling rather embarrassed by Faye's attempts to be her chum rather than a mother.