Lolita's "elegant, cold, lascivious, experienced" girlfriend Humbert decides she "had obviously long ceased to be a nymphet. if she ever had been one."
Jean and her husband John are Charlotte's friends. In an effort to prevent the pair from paying too much attention to his plans, Humbert suggests that Lolita is the product of an affair he had years ago with Charlotte. Humbert considers Jean "absolutely neurotic" and notes that she "apparently developed a strong liking for me." Jean dies of cancer two years later.
Farlow looks after Charlotte's estate after she dies.
Gaston, who teaches French at Beardsley College, finds Humbert and Lolita a house to rent. Humbert trusts him because he is "too self-centered and abstract to notice or suspect anything." While.....
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