Mr. Septimus Tribe, the husband of Verena’s youngest sister, Letitia, and by some years her senior, was at the Board of Trade, but is now in retirement at Tunbridge Wells.
Clemency Power is an Irish girl who managed to get out to France during the War, although under age, and was so happy and busy there that she abandoned idleness permanently. Her mother, a widow, the daughter of an Irish peer, lives with Clemency’s two younger sisters near Kenmare. Patricia, aged nineteen, is the only one who comes into this correspondence.
Miss Louisa Parrish, who was at school with Verena and looks upon that accident as an indissoluble bond, lives frugally but with no loss of social position in her late father’s house in a Berkshire village.
Nicholas Devose is a traveller and artist who came nearer marrying Verena Raby than any other man has done.
Bryan Field is a young doctor whose path crossed that of Clemency Power in France during the War.
Sir Smithfield Mark is one of the leading surgeons at Bart’s.
Sinclair Ferguson is Miss Raby’s doctor.
Lady Sandys is a neighbour of the Rossiters in Kent.
Vincent Frank is remaining in the R.A.F. although the War is over.