Pretty, fashionable and middle-class, Francesca works as a typist in London and also has a keen interest in amateur dramatics and a fine singing voice. An avid reader of novels with a taste for the fantastic, she was a fan of Nathaniel Browne's work before meeting him aboard the Viceroy of India.

• She is travelling to India with her friend Patricia Berry to holiday with relatives.
• Francesca and Nathaniel have become inseparable since meeting, and its clear to all who know them that they are falling in love.
• Nathaniel married Francesca after his return from Drakmar.