Main Characters
- Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, the irrepressible entrepreneur
- Julia Ukridge, his haughty writer aunt, who owns a country cottage
- Jimmy Corcoran, Ukridge's writer friend
- George Tupper, an old schoolfriend of Ukridge and Corcoran
- Charles Percy Cuthbertson, known as "The Old Stepper", a long-lost Australian relative
- Sir Edward Bayliss, O.B.E., a rich man in the Jute business, owner of Deeping Hall and a friend of Aunt Julia
- Myrtle Bayliss, Sir Edward's daughter, a pretty girl
- Colonel Bayliss, Sir Edward's brother, owner of "Pondicherry", a house nearby
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