- Myra Henshawe, maiden name Driscoll. She lives in New York City. She was brought up by her great uncle.
- Oswald Henshawe His mother was German and his father an Ulster Protestant who didn't get on with Myra's great-uncle. He went to Harvard and then New York City.
- Aunt Lydia She has three sons.
- Cousin Bert
- Nellie Birdseye. Later Myra calls her Mrs Casey.
- Willy Bunch, the janitor's son.
- John Driscoll, Myra's father. He died when she was very young.
- Uncle Rob
- Ewan Gray, a stage actor. He is Scottish and was reportedly wild in his youth.
- Esther Sinclair, a woman of good family whom Ewan likes.
- Mrs Hewes, Madame Modjedska's housekeeper.
- Anne Aylward, a poet.
- Jefferson de Angelais, a stage actor.
- Helena Modjeska, Countess Bozenta-Chlapowska.
- Emelia, a Polish singer.
- Coquelin, an actor.
- The Poindexters, upstairs neighbours.
- Biddy Stirling, a librarian.
- Father Fay, a Catholic priest, who gives Myra the last rites.
- Billy, the son of a friend of Myra's, who killed himself at age 23 because of a 'sordid love affair'.
- A young woman whom Oswald goes to the restaurant with while his wife is ill.
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