Hildred Castaigne
The unreliable narrator of the opening story, convinced that the play reveals his royal destiny.
Mr. Wilde
The grotesque self-styled repairer of reputations who feeds Hildred's conspiracy.
Louis Castaigne
Hildred's sane cousin and rival within Hildred's imagined succession plot.
Boris Yvain
An artist whose marble-making solution transforms the emotional triangle in 'The Mask.'
Scott and Tessie
Artist and model whose possession of the Yellow Sign proves fatal.
Jeanne d'Ys
A medieval woman encountered by a modern traveler in a romance across time.
Severn, Jack, and Sylvia
The artists and abandoned woman at the center of 'The Street of the Four Winds.'
Clifford, Valentine, Selby, and Rue Barree
Figures in the later Parisian tales of art, vanity, parental pressure, and romantic refusal.