Mr. Bagnet is an ex-solider and a good friend of George’s. Mr. Bagnet is the husband of Mrs. Bagnet and the father of Woolwich, Quebec, and Malta. He is a devoted husband and an honest, straightforward man. He trusts his wife’s opinions on everything and allows her to run the family as she sees fit, although he keeps up a façade of paternal “discipline,” which Mrs. Bagnet tolerantly ignores. Mr. Bagnet is forgiving and does not hold a grudge against George when George gets into debt and needs the Bagnets to pay for him. He runs a shop which sells musical instruments with his son, Woolwich, and is grateful for his wife’s stabilizing influence on his life. It is implied that, if it were not for Mrs. Bagnet, Mr. Bagnet would have ended up a drifter like George.