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I. The Wings of the Dove
<<The Wings of the Dove>> is a book about concealing.
Kate loves Merton, but they can’t afford to marry. Enter Milly, a wealthy orphan with a crush on Merton and a fatal illness. Kate concocts a scheme: Merton will pretend to fall in love with Milly; Milly will die; and leave Merton all her money; with which he will marry Kate. It’s win-win-win, as long as everything stays hidden.
“…we're doing our best for her,’” says Kate, about lying to Milly. “We're making her want to live…It's wonderful. It's beautiful.”
“… a soothing secret…”
“…a silver veil…”
“…the fine cloud that hangs about a goddess in an epic…”
“I'll believe whatever you tell me,” Milly says to Merton. She conceals from herself the fact that she is dying, because to recognize “was to bring down the avalanche—the avalanche she lived so in watch for…that might be started by the lightest of breaths…”
And then, Milly learns the truth.
My heart is pained within me
And the terrors of death have fallen upon me
O, that I had wings like a dove
For then I would fly away and be at peace
For it was not an enemy that wronged me
For that I could have borne
But you, my friend, my equal.
Shortly after, Milly dies. But first, she meets Merton one last time. We, the readers, never see this last encounter. We only see Merton seeing it, in memory.
“He saw a young man, far off, in a relation inconceivable. Hushed, passive, half understanding, conscious of something immense and holding himself painfully together so as not to lose it.”
Milly does leave Merton all her money. But he doesn’t take it. And he doesn’t marry Kate.
“…something had happened to him, too beautiful, too sacred to describe. He had been forgiven, dedicated, blessed; but this he couldn't coherently express.”
The final words between the dying girl and the one who had deceived her are unwritten.
“…like the sight of a priceless pearl cast…into the fathomless sea…something audible as a faint, far wail…A favorite pang…A sacred hush.”
“…as to the wonderful scene, [we] just stand at the door…[we] feel the charged stillness…[we turn] together away.”
- Text in quotes by Henry James, from The Wings of the Dove. Indented text adapted from Psalm 55. All other text by Kate Soper.
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