# Payment Deferred — Character guide

> Key figures in Payment Deferred by C. S. Forester.

- [Mr. Marble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/mr_marble.md): William Marble has climbed from pinched respectability to gilt furniture, gold cigarette cases, and a bowler hat his neighbours resent. But his new money is shadowed by a secret he guards with a jealousy that frightens c
- [Annie Marble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/annie_marble.md): Winnie has been trained for a household far grander than 53 Malcolm Road and treats her parents' sudden wealth as her natural due. She bullies her mother through Christmas shopping sprees, demands cheques from her whisky
- [Mrs. Marble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/mrs_marble.md): Annie Marble has spent years as her husband's obedient shadow, and the neighbours pity her for it. When Will thrusts a roll of notes at her, she cannot enjoy it; she peels off one pound guiltily and hides the rest. Her f
- [Winnie Medland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/winnie_medland.md): Winnie has left Malcolm Road for the Medland name but returns to extract money from her father with the same persistence she once applied to schoolroom chores. She spends a hundred pounds in an afternoon, bullies her mot
- [Saunders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/saunders.md): Saunders is the man whose entrance at the bar turns Marble's vague dread into a concrete plan he cannot refuse. He drinks at Marble's expense and lends the venture its fatal plausibility. Around him Marble's fear hardens
- [Will](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/will.md): Will exists in Annie's private vocabulary as 'darling Will,' a warmth she clings to while her marriage curdles into silence and whisky. He is the proof that she once imagined being loved, and the measure of how little sh
- [Collins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/collins.md): A friend or acquaintance of the Marble family.
- [Dr. Atkinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/dr_atkinson.md): A physician who attends to the Marble household.
- [Madame Collins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/madame_collins.md): A mysterious woman connected to Collins.
- [Jim Medland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/jim_medland.md): Winnie's husband and a member of the Medland family.
- [Mr. Henderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/mr_henderson.md): An acquaintance of the Marbles with a minor role.
- [Netley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/netley.md): A young man who appears briefly in the story.
- [Evans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/evans.md): A minor character with limited appearances.

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