Angel’s boyfriend, whom Daniel meets at Jim Hennings’s birthday party. A confident young man studying to be a lawyer, Charles threatens Daniel outside the party, telling him that he doesn’t approve of Angel’s decision not to sue him for taking her $10,000. Not long after this encounter, Charles calls Kay and tells her that Daniel owes Angel money, urging her to talk to Daniel herself about the specifics, though Daniel simply lies to his adoptive mother by saying that Angel covered him for dinner one time when they got together in the city.