Toward the end of the novel the protagonist is taken care of by an old woman named Tiare, who eventually introduces him to his second wife, Ata.
Toward the end of the novel the protagonist is taken care of by an old woman named Tiare, who eventually introduces him to his second wife, Ata. After a major illness, he is nursed back to health by the wife of a fellow in his profession. Though she professes to hate him, she falls in love with him, eschewing her husband Dirk Stroeve in the process. Stroeve stalks his wife until he finds she has poisoned herself because painter and stockbroker Charles Strickland has only been using her as a model in, for 10 points, what novel by W. Somerset Maugham?
Toward the end of the novel the protagonist is taken care of by an old woman named Tiare, who eventually introduces him to his second wife, Ata.
The {Moon and Sixpence}