# Some Do Not … — Character guide

> Key figures in Some Do Not … by Ford Madox Ford.

- [Sylvia Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/sylvia_tietjens.md): Sylvia moves through the novel as the elegant, humiliating fact of Christopher's marriage — a woman whose infidelity is public and whose return is demanded as a right. Her letter from Brittany, fed-up with Perowne, sets 
- [Christopher Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/christopher_tietjens.md): Christopher Tietjens is the last of a vanishing type: a man who cleans his pipe with a surgical needle, arranges his son's boarding by telephone the day after his wife elopes, and considers his father an almost perfect f
- [Valentine Wannop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/valentine_wannop.md): Valentine Wannop is clever, broke, and fiercely committed to the cause of women, yet she moves through the novel's social world as an outsider — the girl in the housemaid's pantry, the daughter of a woman who wrote her h
- [Vincent Macmaster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/vincent_macmaster.md): Macmaster is Christopher's closest colleague and the novel's study in social climbing dressed as literary refinement — a man who quotes aptly rather than originally and whose passion for Edith Ethel Duchemin swims in a s
- [Edith Ethel Duchemin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/edith_ethel_duchemin.md): Edith Ethel Duchemin presides over the rectory as an intellectual hostess, holding forth on the beauty of lifelong fidelity while conducting a long affair with Vincent Macmaster. When Valentine witnesses her screaming co
- [Mark Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/mark_tietjens.md): Mark Tietjens is a cynical, detached man of the world who nonetheless walks a weeping Valentine across a quadrangle to plead his brother's case and to scheme a safe transport job for him. He inspects her like a horse — g
- [Mrs. Wannop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/mrs_wannop.md): A former governess turned novelist, Mrs. Wannop keeps a modest household where her daughter Valentine does the housemaid's work between suffrage demonstrations. Her genteel poverty — the Professor's death, the cheap cott
- [General Lord Edward Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/general_campion.md): Campion moves through golf courses, War Office corridors, and country houses with the ease of a man who has never had to explain himself. He is fond of Christopher Tietjens and exasperated by him in equal measure, unable
- [Father Consett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/father_consett.md): Father Consett — enormous mouth, dirty hands, a laugh like a steam roundabout — is the one person Sylvia cannot perform for. He is a saint in the world's eyes and a shrewd judge of character in his own, and his scenes wi
- [Mr. Sandbach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/sandbach.md): Sandbach is the sort of country gentleman who owns the links, keeps the caddy, and treats public order as a personal inconvenience. When the suffrage demonstrators scatter across his sandhills, he yelps after them like a
- [Lady Claudine Sandbach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/lady_claudine_sandbach.md): Lady Claudine presides over the social machinery of the Rye golf party — the dinners, the pairings, the talk that decides reputations. She is not cruel so much as fluent in the currency of scandal, and her judgments of S
- [Mr. Ruggles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/ruggles.md): Ruggles lives by collecting and trading in other people's secrets, and he dislikes Christopher Tietjens precisely because Christopher never gossips. Commissioned by Mark and old Mr. Tietjens to find out what Christopher 
- [Mr. Waterhouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/mr_waterhouse.md): A senior civil servant and Tietjens' superior.
- [Lord Port Scatho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/port_scatho.md): A nobleman and neighbor of the Tietjens family.
- [Glorvina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/glorvina.md): A young woman involved in a scandal with Mark Tietjens.
- [Mrs. Satterthwaite](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/mrs_satterthwaite.md): Sylvia's mother, a socialite concerned with appearances.
- [Brownie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters/brownie.md): A dog owned by the Tietjens family.

HTML index: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_do_not_se/characters