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Sarasa's mother, Girija's grandmother and the diminutive station master's wife are minor characters. Sarasa's mother is a woman with shrewd common sense and sound instinct. She sees through the tricks applied by Sarasa in order to delude her parents about her late home-coming from the school. She rightly understands that there is some affair going on between her daughter and the delivery boy of the circulating library. That is why, she gives a stern warning to Sarasa to mend her ways or she will tell her father about her suspicious activities. She threatens her daughter that she will meet a severe punishment at the hands of her father in case she continues her activities. Moreover, she curtly declines the delivery of magazines by Rann and tells him not to come to their house at all. Thus, she reveals a strand of authoritativeness and an uncanny understanding of human affairs. She is practical-minded and can discriminate falsehood from truth.
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| Girija's Grandmother |
Girija's grandmother is a simple-minded old lady. She is credulous. She is influenced by the tricky manners of Dr. Rann. She is taken in by his suave conversation and admires him mistakenly for his condescension to share food with them inspite of his superior position. She fails to see through the underlying evil designs of Dr. Rann.