She is wrongfully accused by her friend Bertha Dorset of having an affair with her husband, which is her final social downfall.
She learns a bit about collecting Americana so she can have a decent conversation with the man she wishes to marry, Percy Gryce. Her relationship to working girl Gerty Farish becomes closer as the novel progresses, indicating her social decline, and she continually looks down upon the crass Rosedale. She is wrongfully accused by her friend Bertha Dorset of having an affair with her husband, which is her final social downfall. All the while, she never consummated her relationship with Lawrence Selden. FTP, identify this main character of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.
She learns a bit about collecting Americana so she can have a decent conversation with the man she wishes to marry, Percy Gryce.
{Lily} {Bart} (accept either name)