# The Girl — The Truth About Tristrem Varick character guide

> The Girl in The Truth About Tristrem Varick by Edgar Saltus.

**Role:** major

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Snapshot

The unnamed presence whose wedding-day white satin the narrator refuses to trust, standing at the edge of Tristrem's story as both witness and wound.

## Who they are

She hovers at the center of the book's emotional weather, invoked in the narrator's warning that truth is not always dressed like a girl on her wedding-day. When Weldon's lie detonates, she is the one who sinks into a chair with her face hidden in her hands, and when Tristrem turns toward her for sympathy she looks up at him. Her silence and her position between the two men make her the story's most charged absence, a figure whose meaning the reader must assemble.

## Relationships

### [Tristrem Varick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/tristrem_varick)

_romantic_

The Girl is deeply in love with Tristrem Varick, sharing a passionate and devoted bond.

### [Miss Raritan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/miss_raritan)

_psychological_

Miss Raritan views The Girl as a pawn in her schemes, exerting control over her actions.

### [Royal Weldon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/royal_weldon)

_rivalry_

Royal Weldon is hostile toward The Girl, seeing her as an obstacle to his own desires.

### [Viola Raritan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/viola_raritan)

_rivalry_

The Girl and Viola Raritan are romantic rivals, both vying for Tristrem Varick's affection.

### [Tristrem Varick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/tristrem_varick)

_romantic_

The Girl is deeply in love with Tristrem Varick, sharing a passionate and devoted bond.

### [Viola Raritan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/viola_raritan)

_rivalry_

The Girl and Viola Raritan are romantic rivals, both vying for Tristrem Varick's affection.

### [Miss Raritan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/miss_raritan)

_psychological_

Miss Raritan views The Girl as a pawn in her schemes, exerting control over her actions.

### [Tristrem Varick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/tristrem_varick)

_romantic_

The Girl is deeply in love with Tristrem Varick, sharing a passionate and devoted bond.

### [Royal Weldon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/royal_weldon)

_rivalry_

Royal Weldon is hostile toward The Girl, seeing her as an obstacle to his own desires.

## In the story

### [The Truth About Tristrem Varick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/chapters/the-truth-about-tristrem-varick)

A mysterious character who may be linked to the letters and the family's hidden past.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/chapters/xii)

A vivacious young woman, rumored to be an ex-star of the Gaiety, who flirts with Tristrem and attempts to comfort him, but is rebuffed. She bids him goodbye with a cryptic insult.

## Links

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