One may want to read the information on this page after reading the book since it reveals events from the end of the book. The purpose of this page is to serve as a review when reading books with a later chronological date.

I. Rachel Strand

• Rupert Strand: Rachel's father, cheated at cards
• Charity Strand: Rachel's sister
• Justin Strand: Rachel's brother, knew Timothy Van Lindsay and Jeremy Bolster
  • returned from India to pay his debts and recover from Malaria
• Sister Maria Evangeline: Rachel's teacher at the seminary she attended
  • Andrew: Sister Maria Evangeline's groom
  • Diccon: Sister Maria Evangeline searched and found him after the Battle of Waterloo
    • told Tristram about Claude's plans to abduct the Prince Regent
    • fled to Normandy, but kept in contact with General Sir Nevin Smollet
• Agatha Summers: Rachel's abigail, married Raoul, Claude's former groom
• Dr. Ulrich: Claude hired him to perform surgery on Charity which enabled her to walk again
• General Sir Nevin Smollet: Horse Guards

II. Colonel Tristram Leith

• Cloudhills in Birkshire: Leith's country seat
• Lord Kingston Leith: Tristram's father, 52 years old, widowed for 12 years, a baron
  • Kingston considers marrying: Harriet Chandler, Mrs. Maribel MacNaughton, or Mrs. Dora Graham
  • Freddy Foster mistakenly told Miss Brenda Smythe-Carrington that Kingston admired her
  • also mentioned, but not considered, is Aurelia Pritchard
  • after the mix up with the four women, Kingston married Mrs. Dora Graham
  • Mr. Chesley: Leith's butler for thirty years
  • Sir Herbert Glick: Kingston's heir if Tristram dies
• Jenevra: Tristram's mother; half-French
• Sarah "Sally" Cumming Leith: Tristram's sister
  • going out with Sir Frederick "Freddy" Foster, 33 years old
  • Miss Brenda Smythe-Carrington: debutante at Mrs. Maribel MacNaughton's ball
  • General Smythe-Carrington: Brenda's father
  • Deirdre Breckenridge: debutante at Mrs. Maribel MacNaughton's ball
• Lady Drusilla, Countess of Mayne-Waring: Kingston's sister, married to Palmer, Earl of Mayne-Waring
• Alain Devenish: sent down from Cambridge and was obliged to sell out due to pranks he had played
  • Yolande Drummond: Alain's cousin, lives in Park Parapine
  • Mr. George Kimball: Alain's cousin, smuggled brandy
  • Miss Farthing: Alain's mare
  • Mrs. O'Crumbs: Alain's one-eyed duck
• Ensign Charles Quincy: was able to give Tristram a message for Colborne before dying
• Lieutenant Jonathan Rayburne: Tristram tried to give Quincy's message to him, but he fought and ran off wildly, then was hit by a shell

III. Claude Sanguinet, lives in Kent, ten years older than Guy

• Parnell Sanguinet: Claude's younger brother
• Guy Sanguinet: Claude's youngest brother
  • in love with Annabelle
• Annabelle AKA Nanette: Parnell's ward
  • her brother died in a coaching accident
  • she lived in the same seminary as Rachel had
• Madame Fleur Beauchard: Claude's aunt, widowed with six children
• Monsieur Antoine Benòt: Claude's cousin, an artist
• Monteil: a Swiss gentleman who exuded wealth and was in munitions
• James Garvey: one of Prinney's friends
• Shotten: works for Parnell and sometimes Claude
  • was to inform Claude when Monteil and Garvey arrived at the ball
• Gerard: Claude's steward in Dinan; shot Alain with a crossbow
• Philippe and another man "accidently" fell into Claude's bottomless Pagoda Pool and drowned

IV. Others

• Mr. Garret Hawkhurst, married to Euphemia Buchanan
  • held a garden party in honor of the christening of their infant son
  • Lady Anne Hersh told Sarah Leith that her father was to wed Miss Brenda Smythe-Carrington
  • Earl of Mayne-Waring told Sir Aubrey Suffield that Kingston was to wed Mrs. Maribel MacNaughton
  • Sir Horace Drake told the Dowager Duchess of Banbury that Kingston was to wed Harriet Chandler
  • Mrs. Dora Graham told Lucinda, Countess of Carden that Kingston had proposed to her
• Captain Sir Simon Buchanan: Euphemia's brother; married to Stephanie Hawkhurst
• Captain Lord Lucian St. Clair
  • Caliph: Lucian's horse
• Redmond: wounded at the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo
• Galen Hilby and Timothy Van Lindsay: Tristram's friends joined him during the Long Vacation
• Carlotta Bryce and Mrs. Dora Graham: sisters, Carlotta played the Harp
• Camille Damon

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