Romaine Heilger (2016 BBC adaptation)

For this production which was faithful to the short story, Romaine was more Vole's age and she was a working actress. She was a child of War a lost soul who found a equal in Vole. She works in the chorus of a theatre where the leading lady Christine Moffat bullies her due to her accent despite the fact she continue reminds her, that she's Austrian not German. After Vole's arrest, she is given Moffat's part, helped in part due to Moffat's disappearance and despite her weak singing voice, she sells the romantic song.

She speaks with Mayhew about Vole, but clearly understands that despite their common law status, her statement would mean nothing without evidence to back her up. So she testifies against Vole, which shocks everyone however Mayhew gets a note to visit a slum and that it will save Vole. There he meets Christine Moffat who is now greatly disfigured, due to Romaine (not her boyfriend in this version) throwing boiling sugar at her, she however managed to gain her letters which shows her as a liar and deceive.

Sir Charles Carter reveals that Romaine is still married to Austrian man and that she lies to the court, she snaps in the courtroom and at Mayhew, when Vole is freed Mayhew speaks to her in the holding cell of his disappointment when she hisses back.

However despite going to jail for Perjury, Vole helped with her defence and they go to France where with a red bob haircut, they married, however Mayhew was at the same hotel, he came to congratulates Vole but upon seeing Romaine, was forced into the room, they revealed the truth that Vole killed French and that Romaine pretended to be Christine who disappeared because she was pregnant, she wasn't married as her last name was her Maiden Name, however when Mayhew called them monsters they mock him as they were scarred survivors from the Great War that killed many of their generation, he is as guilty as he sent Janet McIntyre to the gallows, they didn't want her to die and they toast him as the greatest monster.

Romaine is last seen with Vole going out, when Vole joked about her getting tired of him, she tells him not to be, which is open to the fact she could get rid of him and that she is as cold hearted as she pretended to be.

She was played by Andrea Riseborough.