The Crosspatch

The baron’s disowned son who has married Loes. He’s determined to prove he can support himself independently, taking a job while navigating his father’s anger and the family’s expectations.

The baron’s daughter who is in love with Hans van Maren. She pursues reconciliation with her fiancé and helps orchestrate a path to engagement, even as family tensions simmer.

Willy’s bourgeois wife who gives up her typist job to become a palace housekeeper. She adopts a false identity to win the baron’s affection and facilitate family reconciliation.

Mary’s love interest, a twitchy young man despised by the baron at first but who eventually proposes to Mary and becomes part of the reconciled circle.

The quick-to-anger head of the family who disowns Willy and schemes about marriages to secure his lineage. He gradually becomes attached to his new housekeeper while navigating the truth about family relations.

The cunning relative who helps stage the disguise of Loes as Louise Hildebrand, enabling crucial moves within the baron’s household.

A kitchen maid whose presence is central to the baron’s schemes and the mistaken identity plot surrounding the household.

The odd suitor the baron considers for Mary, whose misinterpretations about the baron’s intentions fuel the comic confusion and social maneuvering.