Temple sees "a man in a cap" twice when she leaves Miss Reba's to make a phone call. The first time he is "standing in a door[way]" (228), and it seems fairly certain (without being made explicit) that he is a confederate of Popeye who is there to keep an eye on her.
The "two figures" Horace sees locked in an embrace in "an alley-mouth" are probably outside Miss Reba's house, though it is possible they exist only in his mind, which is reeling from his encounter with Temple inside the brothel and the story she tells him about being raped. The behavior of the couple certainly matches Horace's fascinated revulsion with sexuality: the man whispers "unprintable epithet after epithet" caressingly; the woman swoons with "voluptuous ecstasy" (221).
Temple mentions this young woman while talking to Horace: "a girl" who "went abroad one summer" and after she came back told Temple about chastity belts (217). There's no way to determine if she was a fellow college student or a friend from Jackson.
When Horace asks Reba "Have you any children?" she replies "Yes. . . . I'm supporting four, in a Arkansaw home now," though she adds immediately "Not mine, though" (211). If not, they are presumably the children of various women who have worked for her as prostitutes.
In this novel the man Minnie was married to is described a "cook in a restaurant" who "didn't approve of Minnie's business" as a maid in a brothel, so he took everything he could from her and "went off with a waitress in the restaurant" (209-10). Minnie sounds glad to be rid of him. In The Mansion her husband is named Ludus - and he is quite different from this cook. In The Reivers we're told Minnie was married twice, which may solve the inconsistency if this cook is her first and Ludus her second husband. But none of the texts makes that clear.
Listening to State Senator Clarence Snopes talk about the life he leads in the state capital of Jackson, Horace conjures up images of "discreet flicks of skirts in swift closet doors" in various hotel rooms (175). That's all the narrative gives us, but it seems safe to assume that inside the skirts are women, and that the women themselves are prostitutes. The narrative makes very clear elsewhere how well Clarence knows his way around the brothels of Memphis - and even his preference for Negro prostitutes, though there's no way to establish the race of the women Horace imagines.
Listening to State Senator Clarence Snopes talk about the life he lives in the capital of Jackson, Horace conjures up images of "bellboys" with "bulging jackets" (presumably contained alcoholic beverages) making deliveries to "hotel rooms" (175).
The "officers" who search the "ramshackle house" of the "old half-crazed white woman" who manufactures "spells for negroes" may be local policemen, or, since they are looking for whiskey, federal revenuers (201). In any case, there is nothing alcoholic in the "collection of dirty bottles containing liquid" which they find. There must be at least three of them, because two of them "hold" the woman during the search (201).
