Characters
- Mr. Jessop, a British security agent
- Thomas Betterton, a young scientist who has recently disappeared
- Olive Betterton, his wife who wishes to join him
- Boris Glydr, the Polish cousin of Thomas Betterton's first wife Elsa
- Hilary Craven, a woman with nothing to lose
- Mrs. Calvin Baker, a typical American tourist
- Janet Hetherington, a dour English traveler
- Henri Laurier, a gallant Frenchman
- Mr. Aristides, one of the world's wealthiest men
- Andrew Peters, a young research chemist
- Torquil Ericsson, a Norwegian idealist
- Dr. Louis Barron, a Frenchman dedicated to bacteriological research
- Helga Needheim, an arrogant scientist
- Paul Van Heidem, a geneal
- Mr. LeBlanc, a French investigator
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“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.”
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“I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)