Max Adey
Max Adey is one of the Bright Young Things of the type viciously satirized in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies. He is rich, consumes copious amounts of alcohol, is surrounded by friends who are his equal in gloriously unabashed shallowness, but has the very redeeming quality of paying for everybody’s way on their collective holiday notoriously delayed by fog. Oh, and he can’t make up his mind between two women.
Alex Alexander
The child of obviously excruciatingly uncreate parents, Alex Alexander is one of the rich young friends accompanying Max and the others on the holiday. The delay caused by the notorious fog rankles his patience and the reaction from take the form that regards him as everything from merely rude to downright treacherous.
Robin Adams
Not so much a Bright Young Thing. He is engaged to a Bright Younger Thing named Angela Crevy who seems to wield a magical spell over him. That spell, however, cannot obstruct either his pathological jealousy or his genuine repulsion toward by the new social group she’s hanging with who are exceeded in their obscene wealthy only by their infinite superficiality.
Amabel
Amabel is one of the two women whom Max is torn between. And why not? She’s not just fabulously beautiful, but beautifully rich. A little on the assertive side, however: she’s among those delayed by the notorious fog even though she isn’t among the friends were actually invited on the trip.
Julia Wray
Julia is the other woman Max is torn between, although perhaps that term is much better applied to Amabel. After all, Max reluctantly agrees to allow Richard Cumberland to join the party, but only after Amabel has wormed her way. Richard gets the invite but is the only one with a job to do: keep Amabel distracted while Max pitches woo to Julia.
