The Persons + 

Elfride Swancourt, a young lady + 

Christopher Swancourt, a clergyman + 

Stephen Smith, an architect + 

Henry Knight, a reviewer and essayist + 

Charlotte Troyton, a rich widow + 

Gertrude Jethway, a poor widow + 

Spenser Hugo Luxellian, a peer + 

Lady Luxellian, his wife + 

Mary and Kate, two little girls + 

William Worm, a dazed factotum + 

John Smith, a master-mason + 

Jane Smith, his wife + 

Martin Cannister, a sexton + 

Unity, a maidservant + 

Other servants, masons, labourers, grooms, nondescripts, etc., etc. + 

The Scene: Mostly on the outskirts of Lower Wessex. + 