John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5-year-old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt.
Kathleen / Moonyean Clare
Sir John Carteret
Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
Reverend Owen Harding
Ellen, John's Housekeeper
Willie Ainley
Kathleen, as a Child
Sexton