Wilcox” reconciled (Margaret shivers to learn she was once bequeathed the house, but insists her husband did nothing wrong) and the others come in from the field which will yield “such a crop of hay as never!”
Helen and the boy will live at Howards end with Margaret, who is given the house in the will. Charles, one of Wilcox’s sons, attacks him with a sword for his behavior, knocking him into a bookshelf, which falls on him and kills him because of his weak heart. When Leonard comes to talk to Margaret, he discovers Helen there as well. Margaret urges him to see that this is the same as Helen sleeping with Leonard, but he will not admit it. She wonders why both times she fell in love it was for a night of loneliness and panic afterwards. Margaret confronts Henry Wilcox, having learned that he once had an affair with Leonard’s now-wife and abandoned her in Cyprus. She returns home and says she no longer hates Henry and sees why Margaret married him. Helen sleeps with him out of pity when this fails and disappears the Europe.Įventually, we discover that Helen is pregnant. Margaret becomes close to Henry, however, and marries him, making the children dislike her. The Schlegels try to help the Basts, a poorer couple, and enlist the help of Henry Wilcox to get him a job. It was not legal it had been written in inllness, and under the spell of a sudden friendship… to them Howards End was a house: they could not know that to her it had been a spirit, for which she sought a spiritual heir” 114. Ought the Wilcoxes to have offered their home to Margaret? I think not. “It is rather a moment when the commentator should step forward. She leaves it to Margaret on her deathbed in a moment of pity that she will be kicked out of Wickham Place (another Jane Austen reference!), but the Wilcoxes throw away the paper on which she writes it (like Middlemarch). Unlike their grander places in town, etc., Ruth Wilcox’s house at Howards End has been handed down from her family, rather than purchased with the new money of the Wilcoxes. They meet the Wilcoxes, wealthy capitalists who have made their money in colonial rubber and are less artistic but more common-sensical.
The Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen (and their brother Tibby) are half-German intellectuals living in London.
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