Hüseyin Nazmi's younger sister. Throughout the work, she is the secret muse whom Ahmet Cemil worships from afar. Her interactions with Ahmet Cemil since she was very young reflect her upbringing as a spoiled, free-spirited, and coy bourgeois girl. She is the female manifestation of wealth, lack of worries, and pure aesthetics (the 'Mai'). She plays the piano and grows up with European culture. Because Ahmet Cemil never considers himself worthy of her due to his poverty, he constantly feels a sense of inferiority in the love he harbors for her. Throughout the novel, she is the flesh-and-blood symbol of unreachable dreams for Ahmet Cemil.
She is a girl who has been raised with extreme coddling in the Nazmi family's mansion, has undergone an artistic formation among French tutors and nannies, and has been shielded from the wind under the umbrella of her father's influence and wealth.
She is about fifteen years old, possesses the beauty of a budding young girl, has thick, curly black hair, a graceful posture and build, and a captivating silhouette that reflects Parisian fashion from her boots to her umbrella (for instance, black suede gloves, delicate tulle).
Ahmet Cemil
The master poet guest, in whose presence she is sometimes shy and sometimes coys, and of whose inner fire she is largely unaware.
Hüseyin Nazmi
Her respected brother, who cherishes her and to whom she is lovingly attached.