Characters
- Imogen Willard. She studies philology.
- Flavia Malcolm, a patron of the arts. She is thirty-five years old. She is bossy and pretty, but somehow 'always ill at ease'.
- Arthur Hamilton, Flavia's meek husband.
- William
- Edward
- M. Emile Roux, a French writer from Paris, who has written twelve novels. He later publishes a satirical article about Flavia.
- Ivan Schemetzkin, a Russian pianist. He is small and fat.
- Jules Martel, a painter.
- Signor Donati, an Italian tenor. He is very small. He smokes cigarettes.
- Professor Schotte, a scholar on Assyria.
- Restzhoff, a Russian chemist.
- Alcee Buisson, a philologist.
- Frank Wellington, a novelist. He is from Kansas and went to Harvard. He has published three historical novels.
- Will Maidenwood, the editor of Woman. He is convalescent.
- Jemima Broadwood, Flavia's second cousin and a stage actress.
- Fray Lichtenfeld, a German writer.
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