Patterns

MISS STEVENS - in her mid-twenties, very chic and well-poised.
MISS LANIER - a woman in her forties, smartly but conservatively dressed, icily efficient.
SMITH - a thin, worried-looking man of about forty.
GORDON - a well-dressed man in his late thirties with a salesman's personality.
ANN - a pretty girl of nineteen, the carefree, talkative type.
JAMESON - an executive in his forties.
MARGE - a woman of about thirty, the typical professional secretary ties to one oman by a hond of innate loyalty, habit and deep-rooted affection that is as sexless as the woman herself.
RAMSEY - a man in his early sixties; he is tough, icy, predatory but honest.
SLOANE - a battered, dying, yet strangely resilient kind of man in his late sixties.
FRED - a good-looking young man in his early thirties; he is intelligent and dynamic, though extremely sensitive.
FRAN - in her late twenties, well-groomed, an attractive, hungering kind of woman whose appetite is that of the competitive American wife; a very aware person.
MISS HILL - a young woman in her twenties, an efficient looking career girl type.
PAUL - a nice-looking, clean-cut boy of fourteen.