Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father, a Member of Parliament until his son's act forced him to resign, and his married sister exiled themselves to Java in order to escape the scorn which Namba, Jr., has called down upon the family...
...father is Henry Eyre, a famed retired banker, who never has believed in interfering with his children. The present head of Eyre & Co. is Gulian's brother Philip, at college a Christian-athlete, now a settled citizen who regards Gulian with some scorn. Gulian also has a sister Drusilla. She is married (not very happily, one judges) to a broker, Perry Shipman, who is also a rounder...
While he is at the Eyre's place up the Hudson, trying to forget, Gulian meets Lael Sartori, moody and bitter debutante, whom he finds amusing. He meets her again at Sister Brasilia's, falls in love with her. Unfortunately, she misunderstands him and turns him down. So he goes back to New York, bitter...
Then when he is in New York he discovers that his sister-who must have been more unhappy than he realized-has been having an affair with the irresponsible Vannya and that it, too, is threatening to become serious. To end this he tells Drusilla and Vannya-who has by this time become a great friend of the older Mr. Eyre- of the condition of his father. This has the desired effect...
...document's wanderings did not end there. Soon after it disappeared mysteriously from a safe deposit vault, and now only two manuscript copies, one by Miss Dana, the other by her sister remain...