| Gwendolyn | Bainbridge | Miss Sparks's partner. Aka: Gwen, Sophie. |
| Harold | Bainbridge | Gwen's father-in-law. Lady Carolyne's husband. |
| Emily | Bascombe | George's wife. Sparks and Gwen's common friend. |
| George | Bascombe | Emily's husband. Sparks and Gwen's common friend. |
| Morris | Cannon | One of the bachelors Sparks picked for Tillie. |
| Lady | Carolyne | Gwen's mother-in-law. Ronnie's mother. |
| Phillip | Carter | A reporter. Aka: Gareth Fontefract. |
| Sydney | Collins | One of the bachelors Sparks picked for Tillie. |
| Ronald | Colman | Gwen's lover. |
| Mrs. | Corcoran | A lady jailguard. |
| Aloysius | Cornwall | The man who has debt to Sparks. |
| Celia Maitland | Cornwall | Aloysius's wife. |
| Mrs. | Corrigan | Sparks's friend. |
| Salvatore | Danielli | Sparks and Gwen's associate. |
| Mrs. | Dowd | Dickie's landlady. |
| Ronnie | Jr. | Gwen's son. |
| Jessie | Kemp | Miss Sparks's informant. |
| Mike | Kinsey | Philip's detective sergeant. Sparks's former lover. |
| Matilda | La Salle | One of Spark's clients. Aka: Tillie. |
| Tom | La Salle | Tillie's uncle. |
| Angus | MacPherson | The Right Sort custodian. |
| Alfred | Manners | One of Sparks's clients. |
| Doctor | Milford | Lady Carolyne's doctor. |
| Philip | Parham | Detective Superintendent. |
| Tom | Parkinson | Ronnie Bainbridge's best man. |
| Roger | Pilcher | Tillie's former lover. |
| Bitsy | Sedgewick | One of Sparks's clients. |
| James | Smalley | A bookshop owner. |
| Iris | Sparks | Owner of the Right Sort of Marriage Bureau. Aka: Mary Elizabeth McTague. |
| Beryl | Stansfield | Mike's lover. |
| Martin | Tolbert | A clothes shop owner. Tillie's boss. |
| Richard | Trowers | The man Sparks and Gwen set up on a date with Tillie. Aka: Dickie. |
| Agnes | | Ronnie Jr's babysitter. |
| Albert | | Lady Carolyne's driver. |
| Andrew | | Sparks's lover. |
| Andy | | Des's dead wife. |
| Archie | | Tillie's workmate. |
| Becky | | One of Tillie's friends. |
| Des | | Tillie's cousin. |
| Dickins | | The man who was bombed during the Blitz. |
| Elizabeth | | Sparks's aunt. |
| Elsie | | Tillie's acquaintance. |
| Essie | | Des's sister. |
| Fanny | | Tillie's acquaintance. |
| Frank | | The man that Tillie met. |
| Geoffrey | | Sparks and Gwen's solicitor. |
| Godfrey | | Kinsey's constable. |
| Harry | | Roger's friend. An American G.I. |
| Herbert | | Dickie's goldfish. |
| Jones | | The man who was bombed during the Blitz. |
| Larkin | | Philip's constable. |
| Lucy | | A tall woman at Tolbert's shop. |
| Marilyn | | Gwen's friend. |
| Millicent | | Lady Caroline's maid. |
| Percival | | The Bainbridge's butler. |
| Poppy | | Andrew's wife. |
| Prudence | | The Bainbridge's cook. |
| Ronnie | | Gwen's lover. |
| Tony | | The watchman. |
