However, society‘s welcome is frosty and the protagonist blames  Lawrence Lefferts, the supposed expert on etiquette, for engineering the snubbing of Countess Olenska for leaving her  husband.
This novel begins: ―On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing Faust  at the Academy of Music in New York.‖ At the opera, the protagonist takes an opportunity to eye his future fiancée with possessive  approval, an approval that dims when he meets and begins to fall in love with her unconventional cousin, whom Mrs.  Manson Mingott is trying to reintroduce into society. However, society‘s welcome is frosty and the protagonist blames  Lawrence Lefferts, the supposed expert on etiquette, for engineering the snubbing of Countess Olenska for leaving her  husband. FTP, Newland Archer is the protagonist of what novel by Edith Wharton?
This novel begins: ―On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing Faust  at the Academy of Music in New York.‖
The Age of Innocence