The Custom of the Country Chapter 44

In which Undine, navigating the chilly distances within her marriage, finds renewed life and fragile triumphs among her American compatriots and the glittering allure of private artistic treasures, all the while grappling with the resurgent pangs of envy and social aspiration. Her encounters with Elmer Moffatt, a man deft in both high culture and financial dealings, stir within her both companionship and a poignant awareness of the precariousness of her new freedoms amidst the rigid codes that circumscribe her existence.