Read this excerpt from A Night to Remember. Perhaps the Colonel was distracted by his simultaneous efforts to look after Mrs. Churchill Candee, his table companion in the dining saloon. Mrs. Candee was returning from Paris to see her son, who had suffered the novelty of an airplane accident, and she must have been attractive indeed. Just about everybody wanted to protect her. Based on the excerpt, Mrs. Candee is best described as anxious. confused. mysterious. popular.