Margaret Hatfield was a friend of Amos Brearly who dropped him off at their poetry appreciation classes they took in October and November 1980. Seth Armstrong caught Amos getting into Margaret's car and soon rumours spread about Amos's supposed lover. However, Margaret arrived at The Woolpack and revealed Amos's secret, which Amos kept hidden as he had convinced people he was already a poet. Amos revealed she had only been giving him a lift to poetry lessons.