“If one should love you with real love
(Such things have been,
Things your fair face knows nothing of
It seems, Faustine)...”
Louis Durand, the man in New Orleans
Tom, who works for him
Aunt Sarah, Tom’s sister
Julia Russell, the woman who comes from St. Louis to marry him
Allan Jardine, his business partner
Simms, a bank manager
Commissioner of Police of New Orleans
Bertha Russell, sister of the woman who comes to marry Durand
Walter Downs, a private investigator of St. Louis
Colonel Harry Worth, late of the Confederate Army
Bonny, who once was Julia