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Confidant

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Confidant 

a stock character in French and Russian classical tragedy of the 17th and 18th centuries. The confidant is usually a person close to the hero or heroine, such as a nurse, tutor, or secretary. It is a supporting role: in answering the confidant’s questions, the hero reveals his own thoughts, feelings, and actions.
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Ferrars, and the kind of confidant of himself, talked to her a great deal of the parsonage at Delaford, described its deficiencies, and told her what he meant to do himself towards removing them.
Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context
Here of course was the very heaven-sent confidant for such an enterprise as mine.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
He was a great confidant of Long John Silver, and so the mention of his name leads me on to speak of our ship's cook, Barbecue, as the men called him.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
 
 
 
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