Rachel Drummond was a pathetic character in many ways, but I'm afraid probably typical of the time when women were still in many ways almost considered as property by men - and the laws unfortunately were against them. The kind of tyranny we see by Gregory Trask may not have been uncommon. I read in one of the Dark Shadows books that KLS was originally slated to play the part of Samantha Collins, but when she left the series, the part went to Virginia Vestoff. I would have been very interested to have seen what KLS did with that role, even though Vestoff is a good actress. Poor KLS always seems to get saddled with the weak backbone type characters, Josette, Rachel and then poor Parallel Time Maggie.
