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THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

Way Way. A young Burmese girl, about seventeen years of age when the story opens, who lives at home and helps her father with his business.

U Po Thein. Way Way’s father, aged about sixty, a rice-broker dealing with British firms. He is in poor health and suffers from tuberculosis.

Daw Thet. Way Way’s aunt, sister of U Po Thein, who lives with the family.

Hta Hta. Way Way’s older sister.

U Thet Hnan. Hta Hta’s husband; a government medical doctor.

Ko Nay U. Way Way’s older brother. He is involved in anti-British nationalist politics.

Than Than. Wife of Ko Nay U.

Daw Mya Thet. Way Way’s mother, who has become a Buddhist nun in Upper Burma. She also is known by the ecclestiastical name Thila Sari.

Meh Aye. A servant girl in the household of U Po Thein.

U Saw Han. An Anglophile Burmese bachelor, 37 years old, who works for Bullock Brothers, a British rice-trading firm.

Maung Mya. U Saw Han’s butler.