Minor Characters
Lady Croom
Thomasina’s mother and wife of the owner of Sidley Park. Like Thomasina and Septimus, she’s very smart, with a cutting sense of humor and a capability to see through the silliness of the Sidley Park social scene.
Mrs. Chater
Chater’s wife. She sleeps around, with Septimus, Byron and Brice. She, Brice, and Mr. Chater head to Martinique together after leaving Sidley Park. Like Byron, Mrs. Chater never actually appears in the play.
Jellaby
The butler, whose main purpose in the play is to deliver letters.
Mr. Noakes
The landscape gardener, depicted as something of a slave to the latest Romantic fashions in gardening.
Captain Edward Brice, R. N.
Lady Croom’s brother, and lover of Mrs. Chater.
Augustus
The brother of Thomasina. In the play, the same actor depicts him and the silent modern-day Gus Coverly.
Chloe
Sister to Gus and Valentine. Chloe theorizes that sex is the reason why the world doesn’t go the way of Newtonian determinism. She has an affair with Bernard.
Gus
A modern-day Coverly sibling. He is very socially awkward and perhaps incapable of speech. However, he’s very observant, giving Hannah her most important clue. He also seems to have a closer link to the past of Sidley Park than any other character.