Path of Duty

Story Overview

This wickedly ironic story is shorter than most of James’s tales. It concerns three English aristocrats and an unnamed female narrator who is herself a target of the irony.

Plot Details

Ambrose Tester is in love with Lady Vandeleur, a married woman as the story opens. Conveniently for the plot, however, her husband soon dies and Ambrose has a decision to make. Should he marry the woman he loves or Jocelind, whom he does not love but has gotten himself engaged to, and who loves him.

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