a beautiful, frivolous woman given to pranks and imagining a more exciting life...
a diplomat with the Foreign Office who is considerably older than his wife Clarissa...
Clarissa Hailsham-Browns guardianmore...
a justice of the peace and a friend of Clarissa Hailsham-Brown...
a 20-something young man in love with the married Clarissa Hailsham-Brown...
a busybody gardener/servant who comes with the house the Hailsham-Browns are renting in Kent...
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the Hailsham-Browns cook/housekeepermore...
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a drug pusher who romances Henry Hailsham-Browns first wife away from himmore...
Henry Hailsham-Browns neurotic first wife; she falls in love with a drug pusher, turns to drugs herself, and ends up running away with him and marrying himmore...