Patrice Bombelles is male secretary to the wealthy industrialist, Messerschmann, and also the object of Messerschmann's mistress's (Lady India) attentions, which Bombelles has reciprocated for two years. Unsurprisingly, Bombelles does not want Messerschmann to find out about the secretive affair, since Bombelles believes it would mean his firing. So preoccupied is Bombelles to keep the affair with Lady India a total secret, he is constantly agitated, often forgetting or missing the subject of conversation and the latest change in the main character's (Hugo) ever-evolving plans.
Capulat is, as Anouilh describes her, Madame Desmermortes's "faded" servant/companion. She has a minor role until she is recognized by Isabelle's mother as a long-lost friend with whom she once played piano duets. Capulat is both a hopeless romantic and a loyal friend and so.....
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