The Silent Companions
The Silent CompanionsLaura Purcell
Characters in The Silent Companions
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Elsie Bainbridge
A newly widowed young woman, sent pregnant to her late husband's isolated estate, who is later found mute in an asylum.
Antagonists
The Silent Companions
Lifelike painted wooden figures found in a locked garret, one resembling Elsie, which seem to move about the house.
Supporting characters
Rupert Bainbridge
Elsie's husband and heir to the Bridge, who dies weeks after the wedding.
Sarah Bainbridge
Rupert's reserved, unmarried cousin, who lives at the Bridge and becomes Elsie's only companion there.
Anne Bainbridge
A seventeenth-century ancestor whose 1635 diaries tell how the painted figures came to the house.