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Lady Hodmarsh
A society hostess who champions the elderly Driffield.
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Lady Hodmarsh shows up with force in IV. The page is where that presence becomes real.
One of the guests, who engages Driffield in conversation and later prompts him to acknowledge the narrator.
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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