 To Dreyer's great sorrow she passes away; he never learns about the betrayal and the danger he was in.Franz, relieved by her death, is heard laughing "in a frenzy of young mirth".Other characters in the novel are the "conjuror," Old Enricht, who rents out a room to Franz, and the Inventor who was developing robot-like "automannequins" financed by Dreyer who hoped to make money by selling the invention to the American Mr. Ritter.