Myra Viveash

Theodore Gumbril

Myra is Gumbril's obsessive and emotionally draining lover, embodying a destructive romantic fixation.

Casimir Lypiatt

Lypiatt is hopelessly in love with Myra, who cruelly manipulates and rejects him.

Rosie Shearwater

Myra and Rosie are acquaintances who move in the same bohemian social circles, with Myra often dominating.

Coleman

Coleman and Myra share a cynical, hedonistic friendship, united in their emotional detachment.

Mercaptan

Mercaptan is a frequent companion of Myra's, engaging in witty but shallow social banter.

Theodore Gumbril

Myra is Gumbril's obsessive and emotionally draining lover, embodying a destructive romantic fixation.

Theodore Gumbril

Myra is Gumbril's obsessive and emotionally draining lover, embodying a destructive romantic fixation.

Casimir Lypiatt

Lypiatt is hopelessly in love with Myra, who cruelly manipulates and rejects him.

Casimir Lypiatt

Lypiatt is hopelessly in love with Myra, who cruelly manipulates and rejects him.

Rosie Shearwater

Myra and Rosie are acquaintances who move in the same bohemian social circles, with Myra often dominating.

Mercaptan

Mercaptan is a frequent companion of Myra's, engaging in witty but shallow social banter.

Coleman

Coleman and Myra share a cynical, hedonistic friendship, united in their emotional detachment.

Antic Hay

A bored socialite who wanders London, embodying modern ennui.

V

Engages in provocative banter, flaunts her arm and shoulder, and questions Shearwater's lack of interest in people.

VI

Visits Lypiatt's studio, feeling bored and detached. She finds his art lifeless and his passion theatrical, yet lies to comfort him.

VII

She visits the exhibition with Mr. Mercaptan, reads from Lypiatt's catalogue, and reflects on his work and character.

Chapter XI

The subject of Shearwater's anxious inquiry; he has lunched with her several times and is deeply intrigued by her, asking Gumbril what she is 'really like.'

XIV

Wanders London in boredom, reflects on Tony Lamb's death, and insists Gumbril join her for lunch, expressing profound ennui.

XV

Complains about the lack of new faces, adores the 'divine tune' as a distraction from the omnipresent sense of nothingness.

Chapter XVI

Insists on hearing the beard story; expresses boredom and weariness; wanders with the group through the night.

XVIII

Myra Viveash is indirectly referenced as the source of the insult about Lypiatt's work resembling a vermouth advertisement, revealed by Mercaptan during the confrontation.

XIX

The subject of Lypiatt's letter; he recalls their time together and his unrequited love for her.

XXI

Suffering from a headache, she listens to Gumbril's talk and later joins him on a farewell tour.

XXII

Haunts Shearwater's thoughts and appears in a hallucination; later stands with Gumbril at a window overlooking the river, expressing her characteristic ennui.