Character List
George A forty-six-year-old professor of history in a small New England college who is married to the daughter of the president of the college.
Martha George's fifty-two-year-old wife, a domineering, discontented woman who alternately loves and reviles her husband.
Nick A new arrival on the faculty who is about thirty years old and interested in getting ahead.
Honey Nick's wife, a rather uninteresting woman whose relationship with Nick and fear of adult responsibility have kept her a child.