Minor Characters
Geoffrey Leivers
Geoffrey Leivers is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leivers and the younger brother of Edgar, Miriam, and Maurice. Geoffrey is a serious and reserved boy and, like all the Leivers children, he struggles to make friends.
Maurice Leivers
Maurice Leivers is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leivers and the brother of Edgar, Miriam, and Geoffrey. He is a quiet, somewhat sullen boy and finds it hard to interact with people outside of his family.
Polly
Polly is the secretary for Paul’s department at Jordan’s. She is a young woman but is kind and motherly towards Paul and heats up his lunch and dinner for him every day, which Mrs. Morel gives him to take from home.
Minnie
Minnie is Mr. and Mrs. Morel’s maid.
Limb
Limb is a local farmer.
Hose
Hose is a man who employs the local women to mend stockings and other garments.
Beatrice Wyld
Beatrice Wyld is a friend of the Morel family and eventually marries Arthur Morel. She is a bright, quick, and witty young woman and a faithful wife to Arthur.
Agatha Leivers
Miriam's sister, and a teacher. Agatha has rejected the Leiver's family’s general lack of concern about worldly affairs and, in protest, is deeply focused on status and appearance—ideas that seem trivial to Miriam.
Leonard
Annie Leivers's fiance and, eventually, husband. He is good-natured and well-liked.