Quincunx Characters
- Mrs Belflower
- ch 2: pleasant, tells Johnnie stories
- Bissett
- ch 2: a nurse and servant, grey hair
- ch 2: very strict with Johnnie, but he runs to her for help when he is scared instead of his mother
- EQUITY
- ch 1: bushy black eyebrows, about 65
- ch 1: has a client who wants a document that he believes Law's client possesses. This document could seriously damage Equity's client
- Fortisquince, Martin
- ch 1: Law does not know or meet with his client. Martin Fortisquince acts as a go-between
- ch 1: he is a highly respected retired lawyer
- Greenslade, Job
- ch 2: young workman in the house, a cousin to one of the maids that he is going out with
- LAW
- ch 1: a disreputable lawyer, who takes a bribe from Equity
- ch 1: small, large head, about 40
- Mellamphy, Johnnie
- ch 2: the main protagonist of the story. Much of the early part of the novel is about his memories as a boy.
- Mellamphy, Johnnie's mom
- ch 2: kind, pretty, blond hair
- ch 2: always carries a small cylindrical silver box attached to a chain around her waist
- Mr Pimlott
- ch 2: a gardner for the property long before Johnnie and his mom arrived. He lives in a nearby cottage.
- ch 2: he is setting a trap to catch a mole. He takes very good care of his tools.
- stranger
- ch 2: talking with Johnnie's mother at the gate
- ch 2: large head (could he be LAW?), curly reddish hair, large beak-like nose, large blue eyes
- ch 2: speaks with an accent, not well educated (not likely LAW), malevolent look
- ch 2: Johnnies mother thinks he was from London (by the way he spoke?)
