| 1 | Nancy | McAllister | An artist. |
| | Michael | Hillyard | An architect. |
| | Richard | Cotter | Michael's grandfather. |
| | Marion | | Michael's mother. |
| | Ben | Avery | Michael's friend. |
| | Jeannette | | Ben's new girlfriend. |
| | Rhett | Butler | A fictional character from Gone with the Wind. |
| | Scarlett | O'Hara | A fictional character in Gone with the Wind. |
| 2 | Matti | | A servant. |
| | George | Calloway | Marion's right hand man. |
| 4 | Frederick | | Marion's husband. |
| | Robert | Wickfield | Michael's doctor. aka: Wicky. |
| | Peter | Gregson | A plastic surgeon. |
| 6 | Charles | Dickens | An English writer and social critic. |
| | Sister Agnes Marie | | A French Roman Catholic religious sister and nurse. |
| | Lily | | One of Nancy's nurses. |
| | Gretchen | | One of Nancy's nurses. |
| 7 | Kowalski | | A building manager. |
| 9 | Sue | | Michael's secretary. |
| 10 | Faye | Allison | A psychiatrist. |
| 12 | Wendy | Townsend | An interior designer. |
| | Fred | | Nancy's dog. |
| 16 | Marie | Adamson | Nancy's new name. |
| | Richard | | A doctor. Livia's husband. |
| | Livia | | Peter's mistress. |
| 20 | Jacques | | A gallery owner. |
| 21 | Mary | Cassatt | An American painter and printmaker. |
| | Pablo | Picasso | Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and theatre designer. |
| | Ruth | | Marion's secretary. |
| 24 | Emily | Post | American author, novelist, and famous for writing about etiquette. |
