- Mrs Trellis – our heroine.
- Mr. Loukas – the director of the packaging and courier department of an oil refinery, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, who has somehow acquired a suitcase containing 5.5 million US dollars. He eventually gets quite cross.
- Mrs. Khadijah Adhoury – Operations Officer of the Sealed Vault Security Firm W.A who are holding Mr Loukas’s suitcase pending shipment.
- Chester Trellis – Mrs T’s husband, still not recovered from the unfortunate incident with the hot-air balloon.