Summary

Chapter 12

The flirtation between Simon and Edith reaches a high point in Chapter 12 as they are all together at dinner again. Adela FitzGerald, the girlfriend and future wife of the narrator, who has not been mentioned before now, first appears here when she comes to Sussex from London to visit the narrator for a few days during the filming. She is invited, along with the narrator and Simon, to go out with the Broughton family as the guests of Bob and Annette Watson, who are staying at the house as guests of Caroline and Eric Chase.

Adela is from the same background as the narrator and she quickly finds acceptance from Lady Uckfield, who knows one of her aunts and is the same age as her mother. A kind of rivalry develops between Adela and Edith. Edith does not want to lose her confidant...