Summary

The Interlude explains that Letty has always fought for everything she has as her brother, Lincoln, had it all while her father ignored her. She hates that women are seen as lesser than men. Despite her talent for languages, she despised her brother for throwing away his chance to be at Oxford. By the third-year, Lincoln returned a failure and Letty demanded to know what was wrong with him. He mocked her for being a woman and she told him he was better off dead. However, she regretted this when he drunkenly walked in front of a carriage and died on impact. Letty wrote to his tutors to take his place, suffered much at Oxford due to her gender, and thought her friends did not understand the plight of women. In her eyes, they escaped the cycle, but are now...