Dangerous Liaisons, sammanfattning av Letter 85

Handling

1. Merteuil encourages Prévan at social gatherings while carefully making their contact appear ordinary and respectable.
2. She pretends to yield to his courtship and steers him toward a secret nighttime visit after a formal supper.
3. Prévan hides inside her house, and Merteuil delays joining him until her guests and maids leave.
4. After their intimate encounter, she rings for servants, orders him out, and has Victoire help conceal the evidence.
5. She summons a doctor and spreads the scandal through Victoire; visitors offer sympathy, and M... orders Prévan’s imprisonment.
6. Merteuil withdraws from visitors, plans a letter to Mme de Volanges, and reports Belleroche’s desire to fight Prévan.

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The contrast exposes their opposing aims. Prévan seeks publicity for his conquest, while Merteuil controls what witnesses see and what society hears.

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