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...death of her parents. But Lily resists the eligible lawyer who importunes her, and commits suicide rather than compromise her reputation. Several decades and revolutions later, the more liberated Amy runs off with one Herman Fidler, a rebellious stockbroker who aspires to become a painter. Eventually she marries Jamey Coates, a principled if naive Wall Street lawyer, and saves him through various intrigues from the clutches of an unscrupulous partner who threatens to ruin them both...
Whenever he finds himself at a loss in the depiction of his characters, Auchincloss resorts to literary reference: Fred Stiles, a colleague of Jamey's, "thought of himself as the hero of a Balzac novel"; Amy complains to her husband, "You're treating me like Nora in A Doll's House"; in a more charitable mood, she broods, "The Brontë governess had found her Rochester...