The protagonist is disinherited in favor of Grace Stepney by her aunt Mrs. Peniston, and uses the small sum bequeathed to her by her aunt's death to pay her debts to Gus Trenor.
At the end of this novel, its main character imagines Nettie Struther's baby lying against her arms after burning incriminating letters she bought from Mrs. Haffen instead of using them as blackmail. The second book of this novel begins in Monte Carlo, where the protagonist is socially sacrificed to cover up the extramarital affair between Ned Silverton and Bertha Dorset. The protagonist is disinherited in favor of Grace Stepney by her aunt Mrs. Peniston, and uses the small sum bequeathed to her by her aunt's death to pay her debts to Gus Trenor. The main character's desperate marriage proposal is rejected by Simon Rosedale years after she is abandoned by Lawrence Selden, contributing to her death from an overdose of chloral. FTP, name this novel by Edith Wharton about the downfall of Lily Bart.
At the end of this novel, its main character imagines Nettie Struther's baby lying against her arms after burning incriminating letters she bought from Mrs. Haffen instead of using them as blackmail.
The House of Mirth