Olga Dmitrievna

Nikolai Yevgrafych's wife of seven years, twenty-seven years old; carrying on an affair with the young Ris that her husband uncovers via an intercepted telegram from Monte Carlo, she confesses to it without much resistance but refuses the divorce he offers her, preferring on frankly practical grounds (her social position, her doubts that the affair or Ris's interest will last) to keep both the marriage and the lover.