Summary

Chapter 22

Chapter 22 opens with a brief explanation that Edith has decided she will carry through the pregnancy rather than have an abortion. The narrator does not question her decision, only mentions how she might have had an easier time had she decided not to keep the baby. He speaks with Edith, who tells him about her failed plan to meet Charles at Broughton. She says she has decided to try to find him at his other house, Feltham, which she knows he visits regularly. When the narrator asks her how she will manage this he is surprised to learn that Caroline, Charles' sister, has offered to help Edith meet with Charles.

The narrator speculates on Caroline's motivations for defying her mother. She may be wanting to draw attention away from her own rocky marriage to Eric, or she may be doing it simply to...