After the incident at the Trenors and Lily's crashing in on Gerty, we see that Lily is headed home. It seems that she is quite content with that based on what she says after she realizes that Gerty has hastened her return home. "It was a relief to her that Gerty was obliged to hasten away"(Wharton,137). The beginning of chapter fifteen in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth shows even more issues that poor Lily is facing when it comes to money. I'm beginning to think that money may end up being her undoing. But anyway, as she arrives home, she encounters and annoyed Mrs. Peniston. Lily angers her by admitting her poor use of money and Mrs. Peniston states the Lily is old enough to handle her own money without having to bother others with it.
I'm almost getting annoyed by Lily's refusal to consider marrying Seldon. She was so anxious to see him when she wrote him the note that she started making excuses such as bad penmanship to excuse him being late. But, once she gets a glimmer of hope that Seldon maybe did not forget about her she bolts downstairs to see who it is. Unfortunately, her Seldon is not to be seen. Instead, its Mr. Rosedale, and as I predicted, he was going after her and eventually asks to marry her! And as she still awaits her secretly beloved Seldon, she receives notice that Seldon has left for a cruise to Havana. She truly seems perturbed at this point.
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