![]() ![]() Remembering that the movie opens in the London Underground with an outrageously sexy, wordless encounter between Kate and Merton that leads to some terrific illicit groping in an elevator, I couldn't wait to get reading. ![]() It works out badly for all of them, of course. She figures she can wait, and doesn't mind sloppy seconds, but she overestimates herself (and underestimates the others). She contrives to make her naive and dying American friend Milly fall in love with her own under-financed lover, Merton Densher, the goal being to have him marry Milly, inherit her fortune, and come back around to make Kate both rich and happy. Like me, you probably saw the Helena Bonham-Carter movie version of Henry James' "The Wings of the Dove before you ever considered reading the book, so you know it's about a love triangle spearheaded by a passionate but ultimately venal British beauty named Kate Croy. Let's not beat around the bush about suspense here. ![]()
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