person
Marya
also: Марья Ефимовна, Марья Семеновна, Marya Yefimovna, Marya Semyonovna
The young lady of the title, a poor court councillor's daughter in Petersburg who calls on the gracious sir hoping for a free ticket home to Kursk; he gets her patronymic wrong twice and abandons her at the wrong door.
Reading notes
- The Ram and the Young Lady §19 Marya Yefimovna
The young lady herself, whose patronymic the gracious sir gets wrong here and again (differently) at the story's end -- the joke being that he never actually listened to her.