Several chapters into the writing now, the cast has developed and changed slightly, so they need a bit of re-introducing. Taken clockwise, from 9 o'clock, we have:
Archie - a headstrong young Cambridge scholar, pulled from his studies by the death of his father which he will learn it is his duty - to his mother, to the world he grew up in, and to his own ambitions for a future as a scientist - to avenge;
Charley - a member of the 'theatrical gentry'; the teenage daughter of a theatre manager, and is herself a budding brilliant actress; she is a strange mixture of ebullient vanity and insecurity;
Veronique - woman of mystery; young mistress of Gian Carradino, an Italian nobleman and society darling; Veronique is fashionable and beautiful - but is she hiding something?
Susannah Pullen - former Drury Lane dancer, latterly actress, prompt and woman of all trades; she is the unmarried mother of Archie; she is resourceful, daring and still very lovely.
As to what they're up to: I'll keep you posted...
