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Main and Supporting Characters

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Alexandre   Raoul’s co-worker

Beller    John’s valet

Bitty    Chestnut horse John rides

Desmond Wickes  Louise’s late husband

Earl Badgely   John’s father

Edwin Strong   Africa reporter

Father Maurice  Raoul’s mentor/abuser

Gabriel   Raoul’s co-worker

Georges Morvan  Secretary at the French embassy

Gervase Quinn  Magnus’s Eton friend, now at the Foreign Office

Hetherington   estate manager at Shorecliff

Hugo Malherbe  Raoul’s co-worker

Jacob Lee   drives a carriage from the railway station

John Prescott   Lord Therkenwell, Earl’s son, essayist

Lady Tregavethan  Hostess of the ball

Lizzie (Lady Elizabeth Seales) John’s sister, 15

Louise Wickes   Dressmaker’s model

Luella Tyne (Lady)  Country neighbor

Madame Swaebe  Dressmaker, employer of Louise

Magnus Dawson (Lord) Gentleman partner of Toby Marsh

Maisie    Housekeeper at Shorecliff House

Mrs. Fields   Tenant wife and cheesemaker

Mrs. Hampden  Cook at Shorecliff

Osbert    Carriage driver at Shorecliff House

Otto    Flirt at the Austrian embassy party

Parker, Miss   Sylvia Cooke’s companion

Ranulph Tyne (Lord)  Country neighbor

Raoul Desjardins  Assistant secretary at the French Embassy

Richard Pemberton  Barrister

Samson   The earl’s elderly butler

Samuel Steingrob  Wine merchant

Shoemaker   French desk of the Foreign Office

Sid    wine shop boy

Silas Warner   Raoul’s friend, law clerk

Sylvia Cooke, Honorable Childhood friend of Magnus’s

Toby Marsh   Tutor, translator, Foreign Office operative

Vanessa Seales (Lady) John’s sister, 17

William Marley  the heir after John, son of the earl’s first cousin