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The Humiliation and an Unlikely Guardian
Ethel confronts Pike and a feuding family as she declares her engagement to be settled in fortnights time. Pike recalls her father and tries to mediate with warmth while she insists on formal consent and a dowry, revealing tensions between class expectations and personal choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pike
Horace
Ethel
Tike
Mariano
Miss Granger-Simpson
Daniel Voorhees Pike
John Simpson