Both died in a tragic accident, so Susan is Death’s sole surviving relative. Her mother was a young girl adopted by Death for reasons he was never sure of, and her father, a former apprentice of the Old Man. She is, after all, the granddaughter of Death. However, one of her employees, Miss Susan Sto Helit, isn’t the sort of person to give in or feel embarrassed about anything. She generally relied on talking to people in a jolly tone of voice until they gave in out of sheer embarrassment on her behalf. Madam Frout wasn’t very good at discipline, which was possibly why she’d invented the Method, which didn’t require any. As Terry Pratchett explains in his 2001 Discworld novel Thief of Time: Madam Frout, headmistress of the Frout Academy and pioneer of the Frout Method of Learning Through Fun, is pretty dopey in an over-educated way.
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