The Annotated The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes/A Bundle of Life/Characters

by John Oliver Hobbes

Lord Twacorbie.

Sidney Wiche, M.P., Proprietor and Editor of "The Watchman."

Nicholas T. Van Huyster, an American millionaire and poet.

Captain Saville Rookes.

Sir Ventry Coxe, a widower.

Lady Twacorbie, his sister.

The Hon. Felicia Gorm, her step-daughter.

Teresa Warcop, an heiress, cousin to Lady Itvacorbic.

Lady Mallinger, a very young widow.

Luffy, the head-gardener.

Spalding, the butler.

Mrs. Danby, the housekeeper.

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The scene is laid at Arden Lodge, the country seat of Lord Twacorbie,
in Mertfordshire. The action takes place in the course of twenty-four
hours.

" One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
day."