Characters
• Conrad Gyllenfalk, the last count of Bössa, an impoverished Earl • Julia Gyllenfalk, Conrad's eldest daughter, "The Ugly Countess" • Dorotea Gyllenfalk, Conrad's youngest daughter, a beauty • Anton Wendel, a tobacco manufacturer • Hanna Wendel, Anton's aunt • Filip Adelheim, a baron and official in the government • Eleonora, his wife the baroness • Augusta Adelheim, a beautiful, rich and noble lady in her twenties • Otto Adelheim, a young baron • Anders Granlund, a saddler master and prosperous burgher • Stina Granlund, Anders's wife • Carolina Lohm, a rich heiress from Stina's first marriage • Christina Tybelia, a dowager, wealthy, and relative to Julia's and Dorothea's late mother • Vladimir Tybelius, a yet more distant relation, Tybelia's step-grandson • The Honourable Thomas Stanley, a younger son of the Earl of Highminster from London • Karl Kynberg, a foreman in Wendel's tobacco factory • Orlando Vargas, a cigar master from North America (probably with Cuban roots) • Cecily Underhill Vargas, his wife, a dressmaker, from New England • Clas Johan von Numers, an elderly (retired) Captain • Wenzel Lorenz, an elderly (retired) Lieutenant of the Finnish Navy ekipaasi (equipage) ==References==