The Red Room

Hat guy

Direct

. The man with the shade poured out a glassful with a shaky arm that splashed half as much again on the deal table.

Withered Arm Man

Indirect

"It is your own choosing," said the man with the withered arm, and glanced at me askance.

Narrator

Indirect character

thought, had apoplexy better served the ends of superstition.

The Woman

Indirect

The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale ayes wide open. "Ay," she broke in; "and eight-and-twenty years you have lived and never seen the likes of this house, I reckon. There's a many things to see, when one's still but eight-and-twenty." She swayed her head slowly from side to side. "A many things to see and sorrow for."