North and South Volume 2, Chapter 24 Summary

Breathing Tranquility

  • We join Edith Lennox and her husband, the Captain, who are talking about the inheritance that Margaret has gotten from Mr. Bell. Since the guy is a teacher, no one would have assumed that he had a lot of money to leave. But it turns out that the guy has a lot of business investments that will make Margaret a very wealthy woman. It's so much money, in fact, that Margaret needs Henry Lennox to become her legal and financial adviser. This is just the kind of opening Henry's been looking for…
  • Margaret takes a trip to the seaside to take stock of her life once again. Why does everyone she knows keep dying? Yeah, we'd be pretty angsty too if we were Margaret.