Outside, New York went on with its noise and traffic and ambition, its crowds and its enormous distances between the rich and the poor.

Inside, Grace returned to the piano.

And Emily thought again about that terrible engagement dinner — the night she had believed, for a long time, she had lost her future.

She understood now that it had been the opposite: the night she had escaped the wrong one.

She had lost an engagement, but she had discovered who Andrew was when he had to choose between standing beside her and protecting his own comfort.

Victoria had revealed who she was when she believed she was dealing with people who had no power.