1 | Hedvig | Volkbein | A Viennese woman of great strenght and military beauty. |
| Felix | | Hedvig's only son. |
| Guido I | Volkbein | Hedvig's husband. |
| Louis XIV | | King of France. |
| Queen | Victoria | Former Queen of the United Kingdom. |
| Madame | de Sevigre | A French writer. |
| Princess | Nadja | A Princess of the Kingdom of Liones. |
| Frau | Mann | Duchess of Broadback. |
| Onatorio | Altamonte | A Count. |
| Matthew | O'Connor | An Irishman from Barbary Coast. A doctor. |
| Nikka | | A nigger who used to fight a bear in Cirque de Paris. |
| Prince Arthur | Tudor | Son of King Henry VII. |
| Nora | Flood | An Education Director for the James Walton Fund. |
| Rutebeuf | | A French poet. |
| Mussulman | | Hired a silly woman to reduce the hour to its minimum. |
| Luther | | A brillant but emotionally impulsive detective. |
| Leo X | | Second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent. A cardinal. |
| Queen Anne | | Queen of Great Britain. |
| Mademoiselle |
Basquette | A girl without legs. |
2 | Robin | Vote | The one who Felix proposed to. |
| Francis | Joseph | An Emperor of Austria. |
| Charles I | | A monarch of England. |
| Louise | de la Valliere | A mistress of Louis XIV of France. |
3 | Llewellyn | | Nora's great-uncle. |
4 | Jenny | Petherbridge | Widow. Middle-aged woman married four times. |
| Judy | | Jenny's acquaintance. |
| Marchesa | de Spada | A very old rheumatic woman. |
| Sylvia | | An English girl. |
5 | Gurus | | An Indian teacher. |
| John | Chrysostomo | An Archbishop of Constantinople. |
| Montaigne | | A significant philosopher of the French Renaissance. |
| John | Donne | An English poet and cleric in the church of England. |
| Robert | Schumann | A German composer and an influential music critic. |
| Benvenuto | Cellini | An Italian goldsmith. |
| Cibber | | An English actor-manager. |
| Periander | | Second Tyrant of Cypselid dynasty that ruled over Corinth. |
| Melissa | | Periander's wife. |
| Poniatovsky | | A Polish leader who became a Marshal of the French Empire. |
6 | Duke | Alexander | A dynast of the Russian Empire. |
7 | Octavius | | A Roman politician. |
| Guido II | | Felix's son. |
| Madame | de Stael | A French woman of letters of Swiss origin. |
| Tuppeny | | An old-time girl. |
| Don Anticolo | | A young tenor from Beirut. |
| Catherine | the Great | Empress of Russia. |