A Bryn Mawr-educated woman in this novel doesn't tell her family that she works as a maid rather than a secretary, or that she has a relationship with an older man whose room is wallpapered with December calendar pages. After a woman in (15[1])this novel (15[1])commits suicide rather than (15[2])live (-5[1])at her estate without servants, (15[1])her former maid Circe (15[1])spitefully stays (-5[1])there with dozens of Weimaraners. In this (-5[2])novel, a (-5[1])sack supposedly containing (15[1])gold that (-5[1])is actually full of (*) human bones is stolen by the protagonist (10[1])and a friend who later joins (15[1])the radical Seven Days group. This novel concludes (-5[1])with the protagonist ■END■