sir rowland delahaye

Clarissa Hailsham-Brown's guardian…more

Characters

Clarissa Hailsham-brown

a beautiful, frivolous woman given to pranks and imagining a more exciting life...
Henry Hailsham-brown

a diplomat with the Foreign Office who is considerably older than his wife Clarissa...
Sir Rowland Delahaye

Clarissa Hailsham-Browns guardianmore...
Hugo Birch

a justice of the peace and a friend of Clarissa Hailsham-Brown...
Jeremy Warrender

a 20-something young man in love with the married Clarissa Hailsham-Brown...
Pippa Hailsham-brown

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Miss Peake

a busybody gardener/servant who comes with the house the Hailsham-Browns are renting in Kent...
Elgin The Butler

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Mrs. Elgin

the Hailsham-Browns cook/housekeepermore...
Inspector Lord

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Constable Jones

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Oliver Costello

a drug pusher who romances Henry Hailsham-Browns first wife away from himmore...
Miranda Costello

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...