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