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 this novel commits suicide rather than live at her estate without servants, her former maid Circe spitefully stays there with dozens of Weimaraners. In this novel, a sack supposedly containing gold that is actually full (15[1])of (*) human bones is stolen by the protagonist and a friend who later joins the radical Seven Days group. This novel concludes (-5[1])with the protagonist ■END■