Sammanfattning av Vanity Fair, Chapter 36

Vad händer

1. The narrator questions how fashionable households afford their comforts, then turns to the Crawleys’ apparently income-free life.
2. Rebecca enjoys aristocratic society in Paris, while Rawdon earns money through gambling and attracts accusations of cheating.
3. A quarrel with the O’Dowds threatens a duel, and Rebecca decides that gambling cannot provide lasting security.
4. Rawdon leaves for Brussels, while Rebecca departs from Paris with unpaid bills and leaves their son with her maid.
5. Rebecca negotiates a settlement of Rawdon’s English debts for fifteen hundred pounds, enabling his return.
6. Their son narrowly escapes drowning during the maid’s neglect, and the Crawleys establish themselves in Curzon Street.

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