Journal

Richard Wilson.
Eliza Millward: Michael Millward’s younger daughter and a good friend of
Rose Markham. She is an amusing little thing, a very engaging little creature.
Her figure is slight and plump and she has a small face, nearly as round as
Rose’s. Her complexion is similar to Rose’s but is less decidedly blooming.
Her nose is retrousse and her features are generally irregular. She is perhaps
more charming than pretty.
She has long, narrow eyes with black or very dark brown irids. Her
expression is ever changing — wicked and bewitching. She has a gentle,
childish voice with a light tread as soft as a cat — and the manners of a
playful kitten.
It is no wonder that she bewitched Gilbert, until he came under the
spell of a deeper charm.
Sarah: She is the Millwards’ maid.
Mr Wilson: Mrs Wilson is the widow of a substantial farmer, a narrowminded
tattling old gossip.
Jane: Jane is Mrs Wilson’s daughter. She is a young lady of some talents and
more ambition. She has a boarding school education with acquired elegance
of manners and has managed to lose her provincial accent. She is about 26
years old and is tall and slender. Her complexion is fair and brilliant. She has
a small head with a long neck and a long chin. Her hair is neither chestnut nor
auburn, but a most decided, bright, light red. He eyes are clear hazel, quick
and penetrating but devoid of poetry or feeling. She scornfully repulsed or
rejected suitors in her own rank but had designs on Frederick Lawrence.
Robert Wilson: One of Mrs Wilson’s 2 sons, he was a rough, countrified
farmer.
Richard (Dick): Another of Mrs Wilson’s 2 sons. He is a retiring, studious
young man who was studying the classics with the vicar’s help. He enters the
church and succeeds Reverend Millward after that gentleman’s death.
However the Millward family connection with the parish continues with
Richard marrying the vicar’s useful daughter, Mary.
Mr Leighton: He is the preacher at the Staningley church.
Mr Oldfield, Mr Boreham, Mr Wilmot: These are some of unsuccessful
Helen’s suitors.
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