ily, subject to feelings of imprisonment fromtheir institutions and societal restraints; whom on finding theone who would have been able to unlock the words to Dante withthem, and also the door to their prison could have escaped thefeelings of despair which overtook them and thus, would thenfind themselves capable to hold onto love; however, Lilyoverdosed on chloral and only in death, “...in the silence therepassed between them the word which made all clear.” (Wharton,House of Mirth, p.317)...
