Status Updates From The House of Mirth

I am quite contented where I am, and have no intention of leaving."
Selden had risen, and was standing before her in an attitude of uncontrollable expectancy.
"That simply means that you don't know where you are!" he exclaimed.

The make me so sad

Lily had an odd sense of being behind the social tapestry, on the side where the threads were knotted and the loose ends hung.

She leaned back for a moment, closing her eyes, and as she sat there, her pale lips slightly parted, and the lids dropped above her flagged brilliant gaze, Gerty had a startled perception of the change in her face-of the way in which an ashen daylight seemed suddenly to extinguish its artificial brightness. She looked up, and the vision vanished

“Lily, for all her dissatisfied dreaming, had never really conceived the possibility of revolving about a different centre: it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.”

Society is everything to her, even after it betrayed her

Is he asking Lily to confirm that his wife was having an affair??

"The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth?
Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that 's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her."

Oof Lily is so frustrating but this is so true