• Blond hair
• Red hair, sandy eyebrows, light complexion, blue eyes, freckles, a firm chin, a somewhat snub nose, and a generous mouth
• 30 years old (was 27 in 1746)
• Keen sense of humour, rueful, kind and gallant, carefree, some temper, and dislikes rebel hunting
• Nicknames: Teal, Tea-Leaf, the Teal Marauder
• His sire is an old martinet
• Has an older brother who is an anti-Jacobite and a younger brother, Johnny, a Jacobite, who served under Quentin at Culloden and had his leg removed at the knee
  • Quentin saved Johnny's life at Prestonpans and carried Johnny, going by the name of John House, from Culloden
  • Johnny escaped to Brussels
• Brooks' cousin and Meredith Carruthers' nephew.
• Went to Eton with Jacob Holt, whom he has know since they were eight years old, knew Trevelyan deVillars and Brooks Lambert, and had an uncle living in Salisbury
• Friends with Gordon and knows Treve de Villars (whose uncle Boudreaux is friend to Duncan's sire)
• Was knocked unconscious by Roly, they are not friends
• Met Penny and Quentin when they were fleeing Joseph Montgomery, William Beasley and all those involved in Quentin's torture
• Was on the way to Salisbury to visit his uncle (Boudreaux?) before Lambert could get there

Marguerite Templeby

• Slender with fair curls and hazel eyes
• Tio's stepsister: Tio's dad's second wife's child from her first marriage
• About 10 years younger than Tio
• Nicknames: Margo, La Reine Margot, mon petite reine, La Reine, Miss Templesea
• Note: Margot was a famous French Queen, married to Henry VI of Navarre in the late 1500s

Who's Where at the end of Chapter Three

• Duncan, Marguerite, Flora, Tio and Amy are at the Seaforth house in Berkeley Square.
• Jacob Holt is with Gareth Cave at the Laughing Cameleopard Inn in London at the corner of Luxborough and Marylebone.
• James, Anne, Alexander and Theo are at an audience with the King at St. James' Palace (tho' since he was not invited Theo is presumably waiting in an antechamber somewhere).
• Falcon and Gwen are visiting Roly at his place with Fiona and li'l
• Mary in attendance (and 2 dogs and a cat).
• Gordon is gone to a meeting with nutty Brooks Lambert.
• Mariana is in Scotland (no doubt wasting away without the sparring attention of Gareth).
• Rosemary and Alistair are presumably taking this novel off to bill and coo at each other.
• Primat?