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4,644	2833_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the opening of Chapter 5, Ralph Touchett knocks on his mother's door eagerly. His mother is described as being more fatherly, her father, as more motherly. Ralph's father, Mr. Daniel Touchett, is described as having adopted England as his country because he found it sane and accommodating. Yet he also had no great d...	[ "Ralph Touchett was a philosopher, but nevertheless he knocked at his\nmother's door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness. Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted\nthat of his progenitors his father ministered most to his sense of the\nsweetness of filial dependence. His f...
4,645	2833_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In Chapter 6, the narrator embarks on more description of Isabel's history, and other's perceptions of her. He describes Isabel as being an active young person "of many theories" with a "finer mind" than most others, and a "larger perception" of facts. One of her aunts, Mrs. Varian, once started a rumor that she was wr...	[ "Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was\nremarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind\nthan most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger\nperception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was\ntinged with the unfamiliar. It is t...
4,646	2833_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel and the Touchetts take to often talking about British politics and the British public. The house itself receives very few visitors, and so all these discussions are really more theoretical than based off of Isabel's own observations. Isabel finds herself often disagreeing with Mrs. Touchett on the subject of the...	[ "The two amused themselves, time and again, with talking of the attitude\nof the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to\nappeal to it; but in fact the British public remained for the present\nprofoundly indifferent to Miss Isabel Archer, whose fortune had dropped\nher, as her cousin said, int...
4,647	2833_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton gets Mrs. Touchett to promise to bring Isabel to his own manor, Lockleigh. Isabel learns about Lord Warburton's family life: he has two brothers and four sisters. Isabel notes that Warburton acts as if she is an American "barbarian" , and he makes little allowance for her imagination or for her experienc...	[ "As she was devoted to romantic effects Lord Warburton ventured to\nexpress a hope that she would come some day and see his house, a very\ncurious old place. He extracted from Mrs. Touchett a promise that she\nwould bring her niece to Lockleigh, and Ralph signified his willingness\nto attend the ladies if his fathe...
4,648	2833_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton's two sisters, the Misses Molyneux, come to visit Gardencourt. Isabel notes that they are very timid but also very sweet, with the charm of not being "morbid". They invite her to Lockleigh during a time in which other guests will also be present. When Isabel visits them at Lockleigh, she asks if their br...	[ "The two Misses Molyneux, this nobleman's sisters, came presently to call\nupon her, and Isabel took a fancy to the young ladies, who appeared to\nher to show a most original stamp. It is true that when she described\nthem to her cousin by that term he declared that no epithet could be\nless applicable than this to...
4,649	2833_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel's friend, Henrietta Stackpole, the independent American journalist, arrives in England and visits at Gardencourt to see Isabel. She is described as a neat, plump person with a remarkably observant eye. Henrietta declares to the Touchetts that she would like to know if they consider themselves American or English...	[ "The day after her visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend Miss Stackpole--a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion. \"Here I am, my lovely friend,\" Miss Stackpole...
4,650	2833_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Henrietta gets along well at Gardencourt mostly, except that she begins to mistrust Mrs. Touchett. Mrs. Touchett thinks that Henrietta is both a bore and an adventuress. She detests her manners. Mrs. Touchett tells Henrietta: "We judge from different points of view, evidently. I like to be treated as an individual; you...	[ "He took a resolve after this not to misinterpret her words even when\nMiss Stackpole appeared to strike the personal note most strongly. He\nbethought himself that persons, in her view, were simple and homogeneous\norganisms, and that he, for his own part, was too perverted a\nrepresentative of the nature of man t...
4,651	2833_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel is aware that Lord Warburton has arrived with some intention, and she feels curious about this intention at the same time she wishes to elude this intention. Although the narrator does not tell us so, it is obvious that Lord Warburton is about to propose marriage to her. She perceives Lord Warburton as "looming ...	[ "She put the letter into her pocket and offered her visitor a smile of\nwelcome, exhibiting no trace of discomposure and half surprised at her\ncoolness.", "\"They told me you were out here,\" said Lord Warburton; \"and as there\nwas no one in the drawing-room and it's really you that I wish to see, I\ncame out w...
4,652	2833_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel decides to speak to her uncle, Mr. Touchett, about this event. Mr. Touchett, upon hearing of the proposal, tells her that he knew she would be a success here. He also already knew about Lord Warburton's intentions. Speaking with her uncle allows Isabel to feel that she has reasonable and natural emotions, rather...	[ "It was this feeling and not the wish to ask advice--she had no desire\nwhatever for that--that led her to speak to her uncle of what had taken\nplace. She wished to speak to some one; she should feel more natural,\nmore human, and her uncle, for this purpose, presented himself in a\nmore attractive light than eith...
4,653	2833_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton and his sisters arrive at Gardencourt right before Isabel departs for London. Henrietta meets Lord Warburton and tells him that she does not approve of lords as an institution. Lord Warburton agrees, and Miss Stackpole asks why he does not give it up. Lord Warburton jokes that they'll make a ceremony of ...	[ "Miss Stackpole would have prepared to start immediately; but Isabel, as\nwe have seen, had been notified that Lord Warburton would come again to\nGardencourt, and she believed it her duty to remain there and see him. For four or five days he had made no response to her letter; then he had\nwritten, very briefly, t...
4,654	2833_chapters_15-18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The three traveling companions, Ralph, Henrietta and Isabel, venture to London together. Ralph stays at his own house in Winchester Square, while the others stay at Pratt's Hotel. Ralph finds himself alone, thinking of Isabel. He deems this an "idle pursuit" that will lead to nothing. He notes that she is "full of prem...	[ "It had been arranged that the two young ladies should proceed to London\nunder Ralph's escort, though Mrs. Touchett looked with little favour on\nthe plan. It was just the sort of plan, she said, that Miss Stackpole\nwould be sure to suggest, and she enquired if the correspondent of\nthe Interviewer was to take th...
4,655	2833_chapters_19-21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel forms a friendship with Madame Merle, finding her a model worthy of admiration. She observes that Madame Merle was once a woman of great passion, but no longer is -- she has had much experience in her life. Yet Isabel finds it difficult to think of Madame Merle as an individual, in detachment from others and in ...	[ "As Mrs. Touchett had foretold, Isabel and Madame Merle were thrown\nmuch together during the illness of their host, so that if they had\nnot become intimate it would have been almost a breach of good manners. Their manners were of the best, but in addition to this they happened\nto please each other. It is perhaps...
4,656	2833_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Six months after Mr. Touchett's death, we are told about an exchange between Madame Merle and her friend Gilbert Osmond. Gilbert Osmond lives in his own house in Florence. The house is described as a "face" that seems to have heavy lids, but no eyes. It windows are described as defying the world to look inside, rather ...	[ "On one of the first days of May, some six months after old Mr. Touchett's death, a small group that might have been described by a painter as composing well was gathered in one of the many rooms of an ancient villa crowning an olive-muffled hill outside of the Roman gate of Florence. The villa was a long, rather b...
4,657	2833_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At Mrs. Touchett's place, the Palazzo Crescenti in Florence, Merle comes to visit. She arranges for Isabel and Gilbert Osmond to meet. When Osmond visits the house, Isabel is uncharacteristically silent, finding it more important to get an accurate impression of him than she finds it important to produce her own impres...	[ "Madame Merle, who had come to Florence on Mrs. Touchett's arrival at\nthe invitation of this lady--Mrs. Touchett offering her for a month the\nhospitality of Palazzo Crescentini--the judicious Madame Merle spoke to\nIsabel afresh about Gilbert Osmond and expressed the hope she might know\nhim; making, however, no ...
4,658	2833_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel has the opportunity to visit Gilbert Osmond in his own home. Isabel meets Gilbert Osmond's sister, Countess Gemini and his daughter, Pansy there. She notes that Countess Gemini has features like that of a tropical bird and that she has a "great deal of manner". The Countess informs her that she has visited Gilbe...	[ "It would certainly have been hard to see what injury could arise to\nher from the visit she presently paid to Mr. Osmond's hill-top. Nothing\ncould have been more charming than this occasion--a soft afternoon in\nthe full maturity of the Tuscan spring. The companions drove out of the\nRoman Gate, beneath the enorm...
4,659	2833_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Meanwhile, Madame Merle and Countess Gemini's conversation, occurring at the same time as Isabel and Osmond's conversation, is recounted. Countess Gemini declares that she does not approve of Madame Merle's plan. Madame Merle claims that she has no plan, and that she is not calculating. Countess Gemini declares that sh...	[ "While this sufficiently intimate colloquy (prolonged for some time after\nwe cease to follow it) went forward Madame Merle and her companion,\nbreaking a silence of some duration, had begun to exchange remarks.\nThey were sitting in an attitude of unexpressed expectancy; an attitude\nespecially marked on the part ...
4,660	2833_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Gilbert Osmond goes to visit Isabel five times at Palazzo Crescentini, where she and her aunt are staying. Mrs. Touchett notices the anomaly: while Osmond has visited her before, he has never done so quite so often. Ralph enjoys Osmond's company, and he understands Osmond's attraction to Isabel. They both guess at his ...	[ "Gilbert Osmond came to see Isabel again; that is he came to Palazzo\nCrescentini. He had other friends there as well, and to Mrs. Touchett\nand Madame Merle he was always impartially civil; but the former of\nthese ladies noted the fact that in the course of a fortnight he\ncalled five times, and compared it with ...
4,661	2833_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel visits Rome with Ralph, Henrietta, and Mr. Bantling. One day, they are visiting some old Roman ruins that are in the process of being excavated. Henrietta and Mr. Bantling wander off together, and Ralph goes to see an archaeological dig that is in process, leaving Isabel alone with her thoughts. She is distracte...	[ "I may not attempt to report in its fulness our young woman's response\nto the deep appeal of Rome, to analyse her feelings as she trod the\npavement of the Forum or to number her pulsations as she crossed the\nthreshold of Saint Peter's. It is enough to say that her impression was\nsuch as might have been expected...
4,662	2833_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day Lord Warburton goes to the opera, where he knows he will find Isabel and the others. He spots Isabel in a box with Gilbert Osmond and decides to join her. Lord Warburton then glumly watches the two together during the opera. He feels angry and puzzled. Osmond later asks about Lord Warburton. Upon finding o...	[ "On the morrow, in the evening, Lord Warburton went again to see his\nfriends at their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they\nhad gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying\nthem a visit in their box after the easy Italian fashion; and when\nhe had obtained his admittance--it w...
4,663	2833_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph notes that Osmond is a very agreeable companion. We learn that Osmond thinks Isabel is a fine figure, but that she has the fault of being too ready, too precipitate. Osmond feels quite happy and he even writes Isabel a sonnet. He has a sense of success. He had never tried much for such success, but he definitely ...	[ "Ralph Touchett, in talk with his excellent friend, had rather markedly\nqualified, as we know, his recognition of Gilbert Osmond's personal\nmerits; but he might really have felt himself illiberal in the light of\nthat gentleman's conduct during the rest of the visit to Rome. Osmond\nspent a portion of each day wi...
4,664	2833_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel announces her intention to visit Pansy to Madame Merle, but Merle cautions her that it might not look appropriate, since Gilbert Osmond is a bachelor. Isabel wonders what it matters, as Osmond is not there currently. Merle responds, "They don't know he's away, you see. Isabel asks whom she means. She responds, "...	[ "She returned on the morrow to Florence, under her cousin's escort, and\nRalph Touchett, though usually restive under railway discipline, thought\nvery well of the successive hours passed in the train that hurried\nhis companion away from the city now distinguished by Gilbert Osmond's\npreference--hours that were t...
4,665	2833_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chapter opens with Isabel sitting at a window of Mrs. Touchett's Palazzo Crescentini, waiting for someone. A year has passed since she had left Florence: during this time, her sister and her sister's husband, the Ludlows, have visited her and toured Switzerland, Paris, and London with her. When they left, she felt ...	[ "Isabel came back to Florence, but only after several months; an interval\nsufficiently replete with incident. It is not, however, during this\ninterval that we are closely concerned with her; our attention is\nengaged again on a certain day in the late spring-time, shortly after\nher return to Palazzo Crescentini ...
4,666	2833_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	We learn that Isabel is waiting for Caspar Goodwood. Isabel tells her that she wishes he had not come. Mr. Goodwood tells her that after what she has done to him he shall never feel anything for the rest of his life - just what she has done to him. Isabel notes that she will have to prepare for Henrietta arriving, and ...	[ "It was not of him, nevertheless, that she was thinking while she stood\nat the window near which we found her a while ago, and it was not of any\nof the matters I have rapidly sketched. She was not turned to the past,\nbut to the immediate, impending hour. She had reason to expect a scene,\nand she was not fond of...
4,667	2833_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel breaks the news of her engagement to Mrs. Touchett. Mrs. Touchett though, already seems to know. She blames Madame Merle, telling Isabel she now realizes that Merle only pretended to her that she would interfere if there were a danger that Isabel would marry Osmond. She thinks Merle has done something grand for ...	[ "Her fit of weeping, however, was soon smothered, and the signs of it had\nvanished when, an hour later, she broke the news to her aunt. I use this\nexpression because she had been sure Mrs. Touchett would not be pleased;\nIsabel had only waited to tell her till she had seen Mr. Goodwood. She\nhad an odd impression...
4,668	2833_chapter_34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel and Mrs. Touchett agree that Mrs. Touchett will be the one to announce the engagement to the others. Ralph arrives two days after this discussion with Mrs. Touchett. Isabel knows he has been informed of the engagement, and prepares herself to meet with his resistance. But he is silent on the subject for several ...	[ "One morning, on her return from her drive, some half-hour before\nluncheon, she quitted her vehicle in the court of the palace and,\ninstead of ascending the great staircase, crossed the court, passed\nbeneath another archway and entered the garden. A sweeter spot at this\nmoment could not have been imagined. The ...
4,669	2833_chapter_35	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel feels isolated now that she knows how her friends disapprove of her marriage. The narrator tells us: "the chief impression produced on Isabel's spirit by this criticism was that the passion of love separated its victim terribly from everyone but the loved object". She knew Henrietta would come out to disapprove ...	[ "Isabel, when she strolled in the Cascine with her lover, felt no impulse\nto tell him how little he was approved at Palazzo Crescentini. The\ndiscreet opposition offered to her marriage by her aunt and her cousin\nmade on the whole no great impression upon her; the moral of it was\nsimply that they disliked Gilber...
4,670	2833_chapter_36	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the autumn of 1876, Edward Rosier visits Madame Merle. The reader will remember that Edward Rosier had met Isabel's acquaintance briefly in Paris. He was part of the American circle there. He is visiting Madame Merle because he had met Pansy in Saint Moritz, where he fell in love with her. He knows Madame Merle is c...	[ "One afternoon of the autumn of 1876, toward dusk, a young man of\npleasing appearance rang at the door of a small apartment on the third\nfloor of an old Roman house. On its being opened he enquired for Madame\nMerle; whereupon the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face\nand a lady's maid's manner, usher...
4,671	2833_chapter_37	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Edward Rosier now stands in the palace where Isabel and Osmond live at some sort of social gathering. Osmond greets him, saying his wife will be out shortly. When we see Isabel through Edward's eyes, it seems that she has changed very little, imparting still that secret "lustre" of a valuable item. Edward Rosier lets I...	[ "Pansy was not in the first of the rooms, a large apartment with a concave ceiling and walls covered with old red damask; it was here Mrs. Osmond usually sat--though she was not in her most customary place to-night--and that a circle of more especial intimates gathered about the fire. The room was flushed with subd...
4,672	2833_chapter_38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Edward Rosier goes to see Madame Merle, who quickly forgives him for breaking his promise not to speak to Isabel. She tells him that he needs to only be patient and he may have a chance. She also warns him not to visit the house too often. Edward Rosier then skips one evening of the Thursday night gatherings at the Pal...	[ "He went to see Madame Merle on the morrow, and to his surprise she let\nhim off rather easily. But she made him promise that he would stop\nthere till something should have been decided. Mr. Osmond had had higher\nexpectations; it was very true that as he had no intention of giving his\ndaughter a portion such exp...
4,673	2833_chapter_39	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In this chapter, we get Ralph's view of Isabel's marriage: he feels that she wears a mask. He has a theory about her unhappiness and how she is only playing the part of a happy wife, but he knows that she would never tell him if this were the case. The relations between Ralph and Isabel have cooled significantly - they...	[ "It will probably not surprise the reflective reader that Ralph Touchett\nshould have seen less of his cousin since her marriage than he had done\nbefore that event--an event of which he took such a view as could hardly\nprove a confirmation of intimacy. He had uttered his thought, as we\nknow, and after this had h...
4,674	2833_chapter_40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel has had three years to think of Mrs. Touchett's suggestion that Madame Merle had a hand in her marriage. She still believes that while Merle may have helped Osmond get married, she certainly did not put the idea into Isabel's head. However, she has noticed that Merle has had a noticeable absence -- Merle has dis...	[ "Isabel had not seen much of Madame Merle since her marriage, this lady\nhaving indulged in frequent absences from Rome. At one time she had\nspent six months in England; at another she had passed a portion of a\nwinter in Paris. She had made numerous visits to distant friends and\ngave countenance to the idea that...
4,675	2833_chapter_41	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel is not excited by the idea of Pansy and Lord Warburton marrying initially, but she allows the idea to settle in her mind. She realizes that she would be acting her part as a good wife if she were to assist the match in being made. Yet, she is also surprised that Lord Warburton would be attracted to Pansy -- for ...	[ "Osmond touched on this matter that evening for the first time; coming\nvery late into the drawing-room, where she was sitting alone. They had\nspent the evening at home, and Pansy had gone to bed; he himself had\nbeen sitting since dinner in a small apartment in which he had arranged\nhis books and which he called...
4,676	2833_chapter_42	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	This is the most famous chapter of the novel and its climax. Unlike other novels, where the climax takes primarily in terms of external events, all of the tension of the novel gathers in Isabel's mind. The scene consists only of her thinking through the motivations of the various people around her. It opens with Isabel...	[ "She had answered nothing because his words had put the situation before\nher and she was absorbed in looking at it. There was something in them\nthat suddenly made vibrations deep, so that she had been afraid to trust\nherself to speak. After he had gone she leaned back in her chair and\nclosed her eyes; and for a...
4,677	2833_chapter_43	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel takes Pansy to a dance, where she has been instructed by Osmond to keep watch over his daughter. While Pansy is dancing, Edward Rosier approaches Isabel in a determined manner. We learn that Pansy has refused to dance with him. He sees a bouquet of pansies that Isabel is holding, and realizing that it must belon...	[ "Three nights after this she took Pansy to a great party, to which\nOsmond, who never went to dances, did not accompany them. Pansy was as\nready for a dance as ever; she was not of a generalising turn and had\nnot extended to other pleasures the interdict she had seen placed on\nthose of love. If she was biding he...
4,678	2833_chapter_44	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Countess Gemini wishes she lived in Rome - she finds herself often very bored. She thought of society in Rome as very interesting; it had many celebrities, whereas in Florence, where she lives, there are none. She knew Isabel was having a beautiful time, and that she led a more brilliant life than herself. The Countess...	[ "The Countess Gemini was often extremely bored--bored, in her own phrase,\nto extinction. She had not been extinguished, however, and she\nstruggled bravely enough with her destiny, which had been to marry an\nunaccommodating Florentine who insisted upon living in his native town,\nwhere he enjoyed such considerati...
4,679	2833_chapter_45	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel knows that her husband dislikes her visiting Ralph. She thinks of Ralph though as an "apostle of freedom" who allows her to refresh her own mind. However Isabel is very much aware of how her visiting Ralph against the wishes of her husband would not fit the definition of a conventional marriage, and she cowers a...	[ "I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be\ndispleased by the continuance of Ralph's visit to Rome. That knowledge\nwas very present to her as she went to her cousin's hotel the day\nafter she had invited Lord Warburton to give a tangible proof of his\nsincerity; and at this moment, as at ...
4,680	2833_chapter_46	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Osmond begins to think it is odd that Lord Warburton has not yet written to him to ask for Pansy's hand in marriage. Osmond asks Isabel to remind Lord Warburton to write. Isabel tells him to do so himself. Osmond retorts that Isabel is working against him. Isabel begins to tremble. She notes, "How much you must want to...	[ "Lord Warburton was not seen in Mrs. Osmond's drawing-room for several\ndays, and Isabel couldn't fail to observe that her husband said nothing\nto her about having received a letter from him. She couldn't fail to\nobserve, either, that Osmond was in a state of expectancy and that,\nthough it was not agreeable to h...
4,681	2833_chapter_47	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	During a period of Madame Merle's absence from Rome, Isabel is haunted by strange visions at night of her husband and Madame Merle together. She feels her imagination arrive at an elusive point only to be checked by a nameless dread. Henrietta arrives in Rome and visits Isabel. She informs her that Caspar Goodwood is a...	[ "It was from Henrietta Stackpole that she learned how Caspar Goodwood had\ncome to Rome; an event that took place three days after Lord Warburton's\ndeparture. This latter fact had been preceded by an incident of some\nimportance to Isabel--the temporary absence, once again, of Madame\nMerle, who had gone to Naples...
4,682	2833_chapter_48	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph decides to return to England, and Henrietta insists that she accompany him. Caspar also will take the journey with the pair, because he has promised Isabel. Caspar tells Ralph that he knows Isabel simply wants to get rid of him. Caspar came to see if Isabel is happy. Ralph tells him that Isabel is the most "visib...	[ "One day, toward the end of February, Ralph Touchett made up his mind to\nreturn to England. He had his own reasons for this decision, which\nhe was not bound to communicate; but Henrietta Stackpole, to whom he\nmentioned his intention, flattered herself that she guessed them. She\nforbore to express them, however;...
4,683	2833_chapter_49	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Madame Merle returns to Rome and she asks Isabel what happened with Lord Warburton. She pretends to take the whole affair lightly, but Isabel notices that she takes a more zealous interest than she should in Pansy's marriage. Isabel suspects even more than Merle has had a hand in Isabel's own marriage. She no longer fe...	[ "Madame Merle had not made her appearance at Palazzo Roccanera on the\nevening of that Thursday of which I have narrated some of the incidents,\nand Isabel, though she observed her absence, was not surprised by it.\nThings had passed between them which added no stimulus to sociability,\nand to appreciate which we m...
4,684	2833_chapter_50	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Countess Gemini is visiting Isabel at the opening of this chapter. Pansy, Isabel and the Countess climb the Coliseum stairs together. Isabel notices, as Pansy and Countess ascend, that Edward Rosier is in the Coliseum as well, and he is watching them. He comes over to Isabel and tells her that he has sold all of hi...	[ "As the Countess Gemini was not acquainted with the ancient monuments\nIsabel occasionally offered to introduce her to these interesting relics\nand to give their afternoon drive an antiquarian aim. The Countess, who\nprofessed to think her sister-in-law a prodigy of learning, never made\nan objection, and gazed at...
4,685	2833_chapter_51	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A week after Pansy's departure, Isabel receives a telegram from Mrs. Touchett. Ralph has taken a turn for the worse and will die soon. Isabel goes to Osmond's study so as to inform him of Ralph's condition and to declare her intention to go to Gardencourt to visit Ralph. Osmond thinks the only reason she is going is so...	[ "The Countess was not banished, but she felt the insecurity of her tenure\nof her brother's hospitality. A week after this incident Isabel received\na telegram from England, dated from Gardencourt and bearing the stamp of\nMrs. Touchett's authorship. \"Ralph cannot last many days,\" it ran, \"and\nif convenient wou...
4,686	2833_chapter_52	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Before departing for London, Isabel decides to visit Pansy. As she is waiting for Pansy, she is surprised to happen upon Madame Merle. Seeing this woman who was so present to her imagination all day in the flesh is like seeing "a painted picture move". Isabel feels that this is like evidence in court against Merle, of ...	[ "There was a train for Turin and Paris that evening; and after the\nCountess had left her Isabel had a rapid and decisive conference with\nher maid, who was discreet, devoted and active. After this she thought\n(except of her journey) only of one thing. She must go and see Pansy;\nfrom her she couldn't turn away. S...
4,687	2833_chapter_53	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On Isabel's journey to Gardencourt, she has many disconnected visions as she looks out the window -- not of what is outside, but rather she has "sightless eyes. She thinks back to many memories and of her own expectations, realizing the mutual relations and interconnectedness of things that she did not notice before. T...	[ "It was not with surprise, it was with a feeling which in other\ncircumstances would have had much of the effect of joy, that as Isabel\ndescended from the Paris Mail at Charing Cross she stepped into the\narms, as it were--or at any rate into the hands--of Henrietta Stackpole. She had telegraphed to her friend fro...
4,688	2833_chapter_54	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel's arrival in Gardencourt is as quiet as her first time there. She wonders to herself what would have happened to her if she had never met her aunt - would she have married Caspar Goodwood. Mrs. Touchett comes to greet Isabel and inform her of Ralph's condition. He is not doing well, and Mrs. Touchett states that...	[ "Isabel's arrival at Gardencourt on this second occasion was even quieter than it had been on the first. Ralph Touchett kept but a small household, and to the new servants Mrs. Osmond was a stranger; so that instead of being conducted to her own apartment she was coldly shown into the drawing-room and left to wait ...
4,689	2833_chapter_55	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel awakens one morning with the feeling that there is a ghost in her bedroom. She remembers Ralph saying that if she had suffered enough she might see the ghost of Gardencourt. She sees the figure - it appears to be Ralph. She goes to Ralph's bedroom to find Mrs. Touchett over his bed, and Ralph lying as still as h...	[ "He had told her, the first evening she ever spent at Gardencourt, that\nif she should live to suffer enough she might some day see the ghost\nwith which the old house was duly provided. She apparently had fulfilled\nthe necessary condition; for the next morning, in the cold, faint\ndawn, she knew that a spirit was...
4,690	2833_volume_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph Touchett, his father, and his friend Lord Warburton lounge on the spacious lawn of Gardencourt, the Touchett family's beautiful English estate, 40 miles from London. It's tea time. We meet the three gentlemen, all of whom are quite pleasant. Mr. Touchett, an American expatriate, still has the look of his countrym...	[ "Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable\nthan the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There\nare circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some\npeople of course never do,--the situation is in itself delightful. Those\nthat I have in mind in be...
4,691	2833_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph's little dog, Bunchie, runs toward the house, and Ralph sees a beautiful young woman approaching. We assume, as he does, that this is the independent young cousin. Ralph and his cousin, Isabel Archer, get off to a friendly start. Isabel tells Ralph that he is to go to his mother's chambers at a quarter to seven. ...	[ "While this exchange of pleasantries took place between the two Ralph\nTouchett wandered away a little, with his usual slouching gait, his\nhands in his pockets and his little rowdyish terrier at his heels. His\nface was turned toward the house, but his eyes were bent musingly on the\nlawn; so that he had been an o...
4,692	2833_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Touchett is a rather eccentric lady, and insists on things just as she likes them. For this reason, she keeps a house in Florence where she resides, while Mr. Touchett stays in England at Gardencourt. Now that we've met our heroine, we get her back-story. Mrs. Touchett "discovered" Isabel at her deceased grandmoth...	[ "Mrs. Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her\nbehaviour on returning to her husband's house after many months was a\nnoticeable specimen. She had her own way of doing all that she did, and\nthis is the simplest description of a character which, although by no\nmeans without liberal motions, ...
4,693	2833_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Of the three Archer sisters, Lilian is thought to be the practical one, Edith the beautiful one, and Isabel the "intellectual" one. Lilian and Edith are both married: Lilian lives happily in New York with her vociferous husband and children, while beautiful Edith lives somewhat less happily in the "unfashionable West" ...	[ "Mrs. Ludlow was the eldest of the three sisters, and was usually thought\nthe most sensible; the classification being in general that Lilian\nwas the practical one, Edith the beauty and Isabel the \"intellectual\"\nsuperior. Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an\nofficer of the United States Engi...
4,644	2833_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph and his mother exchange pleasantries. While they chat, we find out some details on Ralph's past. After attending both Harvard and Oxford , Ralph took a position at his father's bank. At university, he was considered a very promising young man. Growing up, he admired his father more than anyone else. Sadly, Ralph ...	[ "Ralph Touchett was a philosopher, but nevertheless he knocked at his\nmother's door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness. Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted\nthat of his progenitors his father ministered most to his sense of the\nsweetness of filial dependence. His f...
4,645	2833_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Finally, we get a detailed glimpse of young Miss Archer. Isabel thinks quite highly of herself - actually, everyone thinks quite highly of her. She's intelligent, creative, and, most certainly, in the words of Lord Warburton, an interesting woman. Her pride is one of her distinguishing characteristics - though it can c...	[ "Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was\nremarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind\nthan most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger\nperception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was\ntinged with the unfamiliar. It is t...
4,646	2833_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As interested as Isabel is in English society, she has seen very little of it. Mrs. Touchett has few contacts in the neighborhood, and Mr. Touchett and Ralph are accustomed to keeping to themselves. Lord Warburton is the lone exception. Mrs. Touchett is too funny - she doesn't visit anyone in the neighborhood herself, ...	[ "The two amused themselves, time and again, with talking of the attitude\nof the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to\nappeal to it; but in fact the British public remained for the present\nprofoundly indifferent to Miss Isabel Archer, whose fortune had dropped\nher, as her cousin said, int...
4,647	2833_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton invites Isabel over to his estate, Lockleigh. Mrs. Touchett and Ralph plan to go, too. Lord Warburton plans to have two of his sisters come and visit Isabel in the meanwhile. Lord Warburton has already given Isabel the run-down on his family: he has two brothers and four sisters, two unmarried and two ma...	[ "As she was devoted to romantic effects Lord Warburton ventured to\nexpress a hope that she would come some day and see his house, a very\ncurious old place. He extracted from Mrs. Touchett a promise that she\nwould bring her niece to Lockleigh, and Ralph signified his willingness\nto attend the ladies if his fathe...
4,648	2833_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton's unmarried sisters, the genteel Misses Molyneux, visit Gardencourt. Isabel is taken by them, appreciating their friendliness and lack of morbidity. The two sisters invite Isabel to Lockleigh for lunch. Isabel accepts, complimenting the sisters. Isabel tells Ralph that she'd like to be more like the two ...	[ "The two Misses Molyneux, this nobleman's sisters, came presently to call\nupon her, and Isabel took a fancy to the young ladies, who appeared to\nher to show a most original stamp. It is true that when she described\nthem to her cousin by that term he declared that no epithet could be\nless applicable than this to...
4,649	2833_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Henrietta Stackpole writes Isabel from London to announce her arrival. Isabel arranges for her to visit Gardencourt. Ralph expresses his doubt in journalists, joking that Henrietta will probably write about their lives at Gardencourt. Isabel insists that she would not. Instead, she teasingly predicts that Ralph will fa...	[ "The day after her visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend Miss Stackpole--a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion. \"Here I am, my lovely friend,\" Miss Stackpole...
4,650	2833_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Touchett does not like Henrietta, whom she finds loud and presumptuous. Interestingly, one might say the same about a certain older American lady.... Henrietta and Mrs. Touchett get in a quarrel about American hotels - Henrietta says they are the very best and Mrs. Touchett claims they are the absolute worst. Ralp...	[ "He took a resolve after this not to misinterpret her words even when\nMiss Stackpole appeared to strike the personal note most strongly. He\nbethought himself that persons, in her view, were simple and homogeneous\norganisms, and that he, for his own part, was too perverted a\nrepresentative of the nature of man t...
4,651	2833_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel stands, not wanting Lord Warburton to sit with her. They begin taking a stroll. It's clear that Lord Warburton has something specific on his mind. Surprise! Lord Warburton professes his love for Isabel. He asks her to marry him. Isabel reflects on how romantic and perfect the moment would have seemed to her thre...	[ "She put the letter into her pocket and offered her visitor a smile of\nwelcome, exhibiting no trace of discomposure and half surprised at her\ncoolness.", "\"They told me you were out here,\" said Lord Warburton; \"and as there\nwas no one in the drawing-room and it's really you that I wish to see, I\ncame out w...
4,652	2833_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel needs to talk to someone about the proposal, and she decides to confide in Mr. Touchett. Mr. Touchett already knows about the proposal because Lord Warburton wrote him a letter stating his intentions. Mr. Touchett figures Isabel is waiting to see if a better man comes along, but Isabel insists that she is not se...	[ "It was this feeling and not the wish to ask advice--she had no desire\nwhatever for that--that led her to speak to her uncle of what had taken\nplace. She wished to speak to some one; she should feel more natural,\nmore human, and her uncle, for this purpose, presented himself in a\nmore attractive light than eith...
4,653	2833_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The young party delays the journey to London in order to be at Gardencourt when Lord Warburton visits. Lord Warburton and the older Miss Molyneux come to Gardencourt for lunch. Miss Stackpole meets them for the first time. Henrietta Stackpole asks Lord Warburton a bunch of questions in her bustling way. Lord Warburton ...	[ "Miss Stackpole would have prepared to start immediately; but Isabel, as\nwe have seen, had been notified that Lord Warburton would come again to\nGardencourt, and she believed it her duty to remain there and see him. For four or five days he had made no response to her letter; then he had\nwritten, very briefly, t...
4,694	2833_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Touchett would have liked Isabel to accept Lord Warburton's marriage proposal. She thinks that Englishmen have their uses. Ralph accompanies Isabel and Henrietta to London. The ladies stay at Pratt's Hotel, while Ralph stays in one of the Touchett family's other houses at Winchester Square. Henrietta is disappoint...	[ "It had been arranged that the two young ladies should proceed to London\nunder Ralph's escort, though Mrs. Touchett looked with little favour on\nthe plan. It was just the sort of plan, she said, that Miss Stackpole\nwould be sure to suggest, and she enquired if the correspondent of\nthe Interviewer was to take th...
4,695	2833_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel is in desperate need of some alone time - a lot has happened in her world recently. Unexpectedly, Caspar Goodwood arrives. Henrietta apparently wrote to him and let him know that Isabel would be alone that evening. Kind of sneaky, sure; but, hey - that's Henrietta. Caspar Goodwood asks Isabel why she never wrote...	[ "She had had no hidden motive in wishing him not to take her home; it simply struck her that for some days past she had consumed an inordinate quantity of his time, and the independent spirit of the American girl whom extravagance of aid places in an attitude that she ends by finding \"affected\" had made her decid...
4,696	2833_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel trembles in the aftermath of turning down Bachelor #2. Although she is shaken, Isabel is also proud that she has demonstrated the thing she has wanted all along: freedom. She feels as though she has proved something to herself and to Caspar. Henrietta returns, and Isabel is understandably short with her. She say...	[ "She was not praying; she was trembling--trembling all over. Vibration was easy to her, was in fact too constant with her, and she found herself now humming like a smitten harp. She only asked, however, to put on the cover, to case herself again in brown holland, but she wished to resist her excitement, and the att...
4,697	2833_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph and Isabel return to Gardencourt. Isabel, concerned about her uncle, seeks out her aunt. Isabel hears music playing and assumes it is Ralph playing the piano. To her surprise, she finds a lovely stranger playing Schubert on the piano. The stranger is Madame Merle, Mrs. Touchett's good friend. She is American, but...	[ "It had occurred to Ralph that, in the conditions, Isabel's parting with\nher friend might be of a slightly embarrassed nature, and he went down\nto the door of the hotel in advance of his cousin, who, after a slight\ndelay, followed with the traces of an unaccepted remonstrance, as he\nthought, in her eyes. The tw...
4,698	2833_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Madame Merle and Isabel, as the two guests in the house, spend a lot of time together. Isabel looks up to Madame Merle in almost every way. She is talented, smart, sensitive, and almost impossibly modest. Isabel and Madame Merle go out to stroll in the park, despite the bad weather. Ralph's illness prevents him from jo...	[ "As Mrs. Touchett had foretold, Isabel and Madame Merle were thrown\nmuch together during the illness of their host, so that if they had\nnot become intimate it would have been almost a breach of good manners. Their manners were of the best, but in addition to this they happened\nto please each other. It is perhaps...
4,699	2833_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Some weeks later, Madame Merle goes to Winchester Square, only to find that its house is up for sale. The narrator lets us in on some unkind thoughts Madame Merle has about Mrs. Touchett. We begin to wonder what Madame Merle thinks of everyone else behind their backs. Mrs. Touchett leaves the auction of her husband's e...	[ "Some fortnight after this Madame Merle drove up in a hansom cab to\nthe house in Winchester Square. As she descended from her vehicle she\nobserved, suspended between the dining-room windows, a large, neat,\nwooden tablet, on whose fresh black ground were inscribed in white paint\nthe words--\"This noble freehold ...
4,700	2833_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Touchett goes to San Remo, Italy to visit Ralph. Isabel decides to go with her, figuring it's better to travel with a relation, even with her newfound financial independence. Isabel is no longer as impressed with Mrs. Touchett as she was when her aunt first visited her in New York. Isabel asks Ralph whether he kne...	[ "Mrs. Touchett, before arriving in Paris, had fixed the day for her\ndeparture and by the middle of February had begun to travel southward.\nShe interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo,\non the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull,\nbright winter beneath a slow-mov...
4,656	2833_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator introduces us to a new scene near Florence, now six months after Mr. Touchett's death. The narrator describes the facade of this house as an impenetrable mask, not a face. Two nuns, Gilbert Osmond, and his fifteen-year-old daughter Pansy are sitting in Mr. Osmond's house. Pansy has just returned from a con...	[ "On one of the first days of May, some six months after old Mr. Touchett's death, a small group that might have been described by a painter as composing well was gathered in one of the many rooms of an ancient villa crowning an olive-muffled hill outside of the Roman gate of Florence. The villa was a long, rather b...
4,657	2833_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Madame Merle returns to Palazzo Crescentini, Mrs. Touchett's home in Florence. Madame Merle recommends Osmond to Isabel once more, telling her of his impressive traits. She ominously tells Isabel that she should interact with more men, so that she gets "used" to them - that is to say, so she learns which ones to despis...	[ "Madame Merle, who had come to Florence on Mrs. Touchett's arrival at\nthe invitation of this lady--Mrs. Touchett offering her for a month the\nhospitality of Palazzo Crescentini--the judicious Madame Merle spoke to\nIsabel afresh about Gilbert Osmond and expressed the hope she might know\nhim; making, however, no ...
4,658	2833_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is springtime in Italy, and Isabel comes to visit Casa Osmond. Isabel meets Pansy and Osmond's sister, Countess Gemini. Countess Gemini, a bird-like creature, is a real hoot . The Countess passive-aggressively states that she never visits her brother, because he never invites her, but that she came mainly to meet Is...	[ "It would certainly have been hard to see what injury could arise to\nher from the visit she presently paid to Mr. Osmond's hill-top. Nothing\ncould have been more charming than this occasion--a soft afternoon in\nthe full maturity of the Tuscan spring. The companions drove out of the\nRoman Gate, beneath the enorm...
4,659	2833_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Left to their own devices, Countess Gemini and Madame Merle let their claws out. Unfortunately, the Countess' claws are much duller and less effective than Madame Merle's. Countess Gemini sees that Madame Merle is trying to set up Osmond and Isabel, and she doesn't like the looks of it. Countess Gemini thinks that Mada...	[ "While this sufficiently intimate colloquy (prolonged for some time after\nwe cease to follow it) went forward Madame Merle and her companion,\nbreaking a silence of some duration, had begun to exchange remarks.\nThey were sitting in an attitude of unexpressed expectancy; an attitude\nespecially marked on the part ...
4,660	2833_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Osmond goes to see Isabel at Palazzo Crescentini five times in a period of two weeks, which is quite unusual for him - in normal, non-wooing life, he only visits Mrs. Touchett twice a year at best, usually only when Madame Merle is around. Mrs. Touchett and Ralph discuss Osmond's intentions with Isabel. Ralph is still ...	[ "Gilbert Osmond came to see Isabel again; that is he came to Palazzo\nCrescentini. He had other friends there as well, and to Mrs. Touchett\nand Madame Merle he was always impartially civil; but the former of\nthese ladies noted the fact that in the course of a fortnight he\ncalled five times, and compared it with ...
4,661	2833_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel, Ralph, Henrietta, and Mr. Bantling go to Rome, which delights Isabel. She loves the city's rich sense of history. Henrietta is not that impressed with Rome, thinking that every Roman characteristic is inferior to similar ones in America. This is typical hilarious Henrietta - in fact, everything newer is modeled...	[ "I may not attempt to report in its fulness our young woman's response\nto the deep appeal of Rome, to analyse her feelings as she trod the\npavement of the Forum or to number her pulsations as she crossed the\nthreshold of Saint Peter's. It is enough to say that her impression was\nsuch as might have been expected...
4,662	2833_volume_2,_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton goes to visits his friends the next night. When he learns that they're at the theatre, he follows them there. An act has just ended, and Lord Warburton finds Isabel alone with Osmond in a secluded opera box. Lord Warburton runs into Ralph, who's feeling lonely since Henrietta's paired off with Mr. Bantli...	[ "On the morrow, in the evening, Lord Warburton went again to see his\nfriends at their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they\nhad gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying\nthem a visit in their box after the easy Italian fashion; and when\nhe had obtained his admittance--it w...
4,663	2833_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Osmond has been strangely pleasant the whole time while he's in Isabel's company. He is so pleased to be around Isabel that he writes a sonnet called "Rome Revisited," and shares it with her. Osmond has always wanted someone like Isabel to bring out the best in him, and show it to the world - apparently, his selfishnes...	[ "Ralph Touchett, in talk with his excellent friend, had rather markedly\nqualified, as we know, his recognition of Gilbert Osmond's personal\nmerits; but he might really have felt himself illiberal in the light of\nthat gentleman's conduct during the rest of the visit to Rome. Osmond\nspent a portion of each day wi...
4,664	2833_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel leaves Rome with Ralph to return to Florence. Henrietta stays in Rome to go on to Naples with the amiable and ever-game Mr. Bantling. In the couple of days before June 4th , Isabel decides to pay a visit to Pansy. Madame Merle has been at Mrs. Touchett's in Florence all the while. Isabel tells Madame Merle that ...	[ "She returned on the morrow to Florence, under her cousin's escort, and\nRalph Touchett, though usually restive under railway discipline, thought\nvery well of the successive hours passed in the train that hurried\nhis companion away from the city now distinguished by Gilbert Osmond's\npreference--hours that were t...
4,665	2833_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Time flies - a year has passed since we last saw Isabel. The narrator fills us in on some of Isabel's activities and adventures. Isabel's sister, Lily, and her children came to visit Isabel in Paris and London. Lily thinks Isabel has changed, but not in the way that she had expected. Lily's husband, Edmund, comes to En...	[ "Isabel came back to Florence, but only after several months; an interval\nsufficiently replete with incident. It is not, however, during this\ninterval that we are closely concerned with her; our attention is\nengaged again on a certain day in the late spring-time, shortly after\nher return to Palazzo Crescentini ...
4,666	2833_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator returns to the present, where Isabel sits awaiting a guest. She is not looking forward to the encounter, although we don't yet know who she's expecting. Caspar Goodwood bursts in on the scene. He wants to know about her engagement - whoa, whoa, whoa! He's not the only curious and mortified one here. What e...	[ "It was not of him, nevertheless, that she was thinking while she stood\nat the window near which we found her a while ago, and it was not of any\nof the matters I have rapidly sketched. She was not turned to the past,\nbut to the immediate, impending hour. She had reason to expect a scene,\nand she was not fond of...
4,667	2833_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel goes to breakfast and prepares to tell Mrs. Touchett the shocking news. Mrs. Touchett, not one to be shocked, already knows - apparently, with her innate meddling radar, she could just feel it in the air. She disapproves, and blames Madame Merle for betraying her. Isabel doesn't see what Madame Merle has to do w...	[ "Her fit of weeping, however, was soon smothered, and the signs of it had\nvanished when, an hour later, she broke the news to her aunt. I use this\nexpression because she had been sure Mrs. Touchett would not be pleased;\nIsabel had only waited to tell her till she had seen Mr. Goodwood. She\nhad an odd impression...
4,668	2833_chapter_34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's a beautiful afternoon, and Isabel sees Ralph sitting outside. Ralph apologizes for not having congratulated Isabel on her engagement. Ralph says that he's surprised that Isabel's allowed herself to be caught in a cage. Isabel says that she's done with exploring the world. She wants to create her own space now, and...	[ "One morning, on her return from her drive, some half-hour before\nluncheon, she quitted her vehicle in the court of the palace and,\ninstead of ascending the great staircase, crossed the court, passed\nbeneath another archway and entered the garden. A sweeter spot at this\nmoment could not have been imagined. The ...
4,669	2833_chapter_35	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel doesn't tell Osmond that her family and friends think so poorly of him. She doesn't care what everyone else thinks, and is glad that she is marrying someone only to please herself. Her love for Osmond has somehow separated her from everyone else she cares about. Osmond thinks that Madame Merle has given him "a p...	[ "Isabel, when she strolled in the Cascine with her lover, felt no impulse\nto tell him how little he was approved at Palazzo Crescentini. The\ndiscreet opposition offered to her marriage by her aunt and her cousin\nmade on the whole no great impression upon her; the moral of it was\nsimply that they disliked Gilber...
4,670	2833_chapter_36	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is the autumn of 1876, some three years later. Edward Rosier calls upon Madame Merle in Rome to ask her for a favor. Rosier is in love with Pansy, and asks for Madame Merle's influence in recommending him to Mr. and Mrs. Osmond. Rosier loves Pansy for her perfection. He is a collector of art as well, but we don't ge...	[ "One afternoon of the autumn of 1876, toward dusk, a young man of\npleasing appearance rang at the door of a small apartment on the third\nfloor of an old Roman house. On its being opened he enquired for Madame\nMerle; whereupon the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face\nand a lady's maid's manner, usher...
4,671	2833_chapter_37	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Rosier goes to greet Osmond, who is standing by the fireplace. Osmond is insufferably rude to him, and suggests crudely that he has nothing in his collection that he wants to match - including Pansy. Rosier implies to Isabel that he is interested in Pansy. He wonders if he has gone against his promise to Madame Merle a...	[ "Pansy was not in the first of the rooms, a large apartment with a concave ceiling and walls covered with old red damask; it was here Mrs. Osmond usually sat--though she was not in her most customary place to-night--and that a circle of more especial intimates gathered about the fire. The room was flushed with subd...
4,672	2833_chapter_38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Madame Merle again convinces Rosier to be patient, and to only call on Pansy on Thursday evenings, when the Osmonds have a sort of open house for all of their acquaintances. On such a Thursday, Rosier goes to the Osmonds' and greets Gilbert Osmond again. Once more, Osmond is a perfectly rude you-know-what. Osmond finds...	[ "He went to see Madame Merle on the morrow, and to his surprise she let\nhim off rather easily. But she made him promise that he would stop\nthere till something should have been decided. Mr. Osmond had had higher\nexpectations; it was very true that as he had no intention of giving his\ndaughter a portion such exp...
4,673	2833_chapter_39	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Ralph and Isabel have not been in regular contact ever since their argument over Isabel's engagement. Isabel figured that she wouldn't be Ralph's friend in the same way, once she became Osmond's wife. Ralph attended Isabel and Gilbert Osmond's wedding in Florence. The couple decided to marry quickly, so they could take...	[ "It will probably not surprise the reflective reader that Ralph Touchett\nshould have seen less of his cousin since her marriage than he had done\nbefore that event--an event of which he took such a view as could hardly\nprove a confirmation of intimacy. He had uttered his thought, as we\nknow, and after this had h...
4,674	2833_chapter_40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Madame Merle hasn't been around Rome much; she's made herself scarce. Madame Merle comes to visit in the winter. The dynamic between Madame Merle and Isabel has shifted. Isabel is now more aware of Ralph's complaint about Madame Merle, which was that she exaggerates too much. For the past three years, Isabel has ponder...	[ "Isabel had not seen much of Madame Merle since her marriage, this lady\nhaving indulged in frequent absences from Rome. At one time she had\nspent six months in England; at another she had passed a portion of a\nwinter in Paris. She had made numerous visits to distant friends and\ngave countenance to the idea that...
4,675	2833_chapter_41	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton calls on the Osmond household often to visit with Isabel and Pansy. Isabel is open to the idea of Pansy marrying the lord, but thinks of what a shame it is that Rosier will be hurt. She wants to please Osmond. We're disturbed by her abused-wife mentality.... Isabel considers leaving Lord Warburton and Pa...	[ "Osmond touched on this matter that evening for the first time; coming\nvery late into the drawing-room, where she was sitting alone. They had\nspent the evening at home, and Pansy had gone to bed; he himself had\nbeen sitting since dinner in a small apartment in which he had arranged\nhis books and which he called...
4,676	2833_chapter_42	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel is doing a lot of thinking. We learn about her thoughts on her marriage to Osmond and Lord Warburton's pursuit of Pansy. Isabel wonders if she gave a false image of herself to Osmond when they first got involved. Isabel feels certain that Osmond hates her, because she doesn't have a sense of "tradition." Well, o...	[ "She had answered nothing because his words had put the situation before\nher and she was absorbed in looking at it. There was something in them\nthat suddenly made vibrations deep, so that she had been afraid to trust\nherself to speak. After he had gone she leaned back in her chair and\nclosed her eyes; and for a...
4,677	2833_chapter_43	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel accompanies Pansy to a fancy ball, where they once again encounter both Rosier and Lord Warburton. Isabel can tell that Rosier really does love Pansy, and that staying away from her tortures him. Osmond has ordered Pansy not to dance with him, and, of course, Pansy obeys. Isabel kindly allows Rosier to take a si...	[ "Three nights after this she took Pansy to a great party, to which\nOsmond, who never went to dances, did not accompany them. Pansy was as\nready for a dance as ever; she was not of a generalising turn and had\nnot extended to other pleasures the interdict she had seen placed on\nthose of love. If she was biding he...
4,678	2833_chapter_44	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Countess Gemini has been invited to stay at the Osmonds' for a couple of weeks. The Countess is fond of Isabel, although she and her brother have a mutual dislike for one another. She hopes to find that Osmond has met his match in Isabel. Henrietta visits Countess Gemini, asking whether she knows of Isabel's situation....	[ "The Countess Gemini was often extremely bored--bored, in her own phrase,\nto extinction. She had not been extinguished, however, and she\nstruggled bravely enough with her destiny, which had been to marry an\nunaccommodating Florentine who insisted upon living in his native town,\nwhere he enjoyed such considerati...
4,679	2833_chapter_45	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel goes to visit Ralph, knowing full well that Osmond doesn't approve of it. Isabel asks Ralph about Lord Warburton, and Ralph admits that he is very much in love... but with Isabel, not Pansy. Isabel laments that Ralph is not helping her, which is the one instance in which she suggests that she actually needs help...	[ "I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be\ndispleased by the continuance of Ralph's visit to Rome. That knowledge\nwas very present to her as she went to her cousin's hotel the day\nafter she had invited Lord Warburton to give a tangible proof of his\nsincerity; and at this moment, as at ...
4,680	2833_chapter_46	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lord Warburton has not called or written, and Osmond, ever the pessimist, holds Isabel responsible. Osmond assumes that Isabel has a hand in Warburton's sudden absence, and demands that she correct it. At this fortuitous moment, Lord Warburton arrives at the Osmonds' and announces his departure for England. He invites ...	[ "Lord Warburton was not seen in Mrs. Osmond's drawing-room for several\ndays, and Isabel couldn't fail to observe that her husband said nothing\nto her about having received a letter from him. She couldn't fail to\nobserve, either, that Osmond was in a state of expectancy and that,\nthough it was not agreeable to h...
4,681	2833_chapter_47	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Madame Merle has gone to Naples. Henrietta visits Isabel and tells her that Caspar is in town. He has yet to contact Isabel. Isabel worries about seeing Caspar again, since she feels like he had invested all of his happiness in her. Henrietta is a welcome addition to Isabel's life - she can actually talk honestly with ...	[ "It was from Henrietta Stackpole that she learned how Caspar Goodwood had\ncome to Rome; an event that took place three days after Lord Warburton's\ndeparture. This latter fact had been preceded by an incident of some\nimportance to Isabel--the temporary absence, once again, of Madame\nMerle, who had gone to Naples...
4,682	2833_chapter_48	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's the end of February, and Ralph decides to return to Gardencourt. Henrietta makes up her mind that she will take care of Ralph on his return trip. Caspar has already told Isabel that he will go as well. Caspar complains to Ralph that Isabel just wants him to get away from Rome. He's not wrong. Caspar is upset by th...	[ "One day, toward the end of February, Ralph Touchett made up his mind to\nreturn to England. He had his own reasons for this decision, which\nhe was not bound to communicate; but Henrietta Stackpole, to whom he\nmentioned his intention, flattered herself that she guessed them. She\nforbore to express them, however;...
4,683	2833_chapter_49	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The sly Madame Merle comes to visit Isabel. Madame Merle asks Isabel about Lord Warburton's whereabouts. She is clearly disappointed and surprised that things had not been better arranged for Pansy. Isabel feels suspicious toward Madame Merle now, ever since she caught her and Osmond in intimate conversation. That imag...	[ "Madame Merle had not made her appearance at Palazzo Roccanera on the\nevening of that Thursday of which I have narrated some of the incidents,\nand Isabel, though she observed her absence, was not surprised by it.\nThings had passed between them which added no stimulus to sociability,\nand to appreciate which we m...
4,684	2833_chapter_50	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel sometimes goes with the Countess Gemini to tour Rome. This way, Isabel has a chance of listening to Countess Gemini ramble about something other than social gossip. Pansy joins them on this particular trip to the Coliseum. Isabel sees Rosier there, who tells her that he has sold all of his art collection , and t...	[ "As the Countess Gemini was not acquainted with the ancient monuments\nIsabel occasionally offered to introduce her to these interesting relics\nand to give their afternoon drive an antiquarian aim. The Countess, who\nprofessed to think her sister-in-law a prodigy of learning, never made\nan objection, and gazed at...
4,685	2833_chapter_51	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Touchett telegrams Isabel, notifying her of Ralph's imminent death. She asks Isabel to come to Gardencourt. Isabel goes to Osmond to let him know that she's going. Osmond forbids her to go. Osmond tells her that it would be an indecent thing to go against his wishes, as they are still a married couple, like it or ...	[ "The Countess was not banished, but she felt the insecurity of her tenure\nof her brother's hospitality. A week after this incident Isabel received\na telegram from England, dated from Gardencourt and bearing the stamp of\nMrs. Touchett's authorship. \"Ralph cannot last many days,\" it ran, \"and\nif convenient wou...
4,686	2833_chapter_52	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel decides to visit Pansy before going to see Ralph. She runs into Madame Merle at the convent. Madame Merle suddenly knows that Isabel has changed: she knows her secret. Isabel tells Madame Merle that she is going to Gardencourt to see Ralph after leaving the convent. Isabel tells Pansy that she is leaving for Eng...	[ "There was a train for Turin and Paris that evening; and after the\nCountess had left her Isabel had a rapid and decisive conference with\nher maid, who was discreet, devoted and active. After this she thought\n(except of her journey) only of one thing. She must go and see Pansy;\nfrom her she couldn't turn away. S...
4,687	2833_chapter_53	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Henrietta greets Isabel at the train station in England. On the train ride, Isabel couldn't think clearly. She actually envies Ralph's death - she would rather die than live her life as it is. Lady Pensil will come to visit Henrietta, though she never did invite Henrietta to visit her. On that note, Henrietta has some ...	[ "It was not with surprise, it was with a feeling which in other\ncircumstances would have had much of the effect of joy, that as Isabel\ndescended from the Paris Mail at Charing Cross she stepped into the\narms, as it were--or at any rate into the hands--of Henrietta Stackpole. She had telegraphed to her friend fro...
4,688	2833_chapter_54	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Isabel arrives at Gardencourt, which is quiet and solemn. Mrs. Touchett finally greets Isabel after waiting for the nurse to come back and tend to Ralph. Isabel wonders what life would have been like if Mrs. Touchett had never met her in New York; perhaps she would have married Caspar Goodwood. Mrs. Touchett tells Isab...	[ "Isabel's arrival at Gardencourt on this second occasion was even quieter than it had been on the first. Ralph Touchett kept but a small household, and to the new servants Mrs. Osmond was a stranger; so that instead of being conducted to her own apartment she was coldly shown into the drawing-room and left to wait ...

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