Status Updates From The Wings of the Dove

I cannot deal with “MERTON DENSHER” figuring out the swindle (marry the rich dying girl and then he will be acceptable to the mother of the girl he wants to marry) on page 394 despite he and his lady talking about it for a hundred pages

Our main character is dying but exhibits no signs other than “prefers to stay on the second level of her Venice estate.”

Finally, they are plotting

“Henry James was harshly portrayed by H. G. Wells as a hippopotamus laboriously attempting to pick up a pea that had got into a corner of its cage.” —Wikipedia