# Will — Payment Deferred character guide

> Will in Payment Deferred by C. S. Forester.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Willie, darling Will

**First appearance:** 0001-ii

## Snapshot

A young man whose name Annie Marble speaks with a tenderness her husband has long since stopped earning.

## Who they are

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 she now receives. His presence in her thoughts makes Marble's anxious watchfulness over his wife both crueller and more precarious.

## Relationships

### [Annie Marble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/annie_marble)

_friendship_

Will is a young man who shows romantic interest in Annie, offering her a simpler, happier connection.

### [Mrs. Marble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/mrs_marble)

_social_

Mrs. Marble is friendly with Will, seeing him as a suitable young man for her daughter Annie.

### [Mrs. Marble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/mrs_marble)

_social_

Mrs. Marble is friendly with Will, seeing him as a suitable young man for her daughter Annie.

### [Annie Marble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/characters/annie_marble)

_friendship_

Will is a young man who shows romantic interest in Annie, offering her a simpler, happier connection.

## In the story

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/payment_deferred_se/chapters/ix)

John is unhappy, senses deep trouble at home, resents his father's gifts as bribes, and worries about his mother's distress.

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