Characters
- Elizabeth MacLeod (Eve to her husband Gerald) - living at her family's farm in Vermont with her son Rennie after her husband Gerald sent her and him away from Peking.
- Gerald MacLeod - Elizabeth's husband, a university president in Peking, the son of an American father and Chinese mother.
- Rennie MacLeod - Elizabeth's son, age 17 to 20 in the story.
- Matt Greene - caretaker at the Vermont farm.
- grandfather MacLeod (Baba) - Gerald's father, born in Virginia, who left Peking for San Francisco when the Japanese invaded China. He ended up in Little Springs, Kansas, at the farm of Sam Blaine.
- Sam Blaine - American who took in and watched over grandfather MacLeod. Age 42. Grandfather MacLeod had typhoid fever when Sam took him in.
- Dr Bruce Spauldin - The local doctor in Raleigh, Vermont.
- Ai-lan - Gerald's mother. Her fiance died when she was 15. She married grandfather MacLeod when she was 25, he was 30.
- Mei-lan - Gerald's wife-in-absence, second wife or concubine.
- George Bowen - Rennie's college roommate, the brother of his wife-to-be, Mary.
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