Her presence between the two lovers is something more than a mere convenience: she is the only right thing in their lives and they want to keep her.
Cuddon, one of Beale’s mistresses.ģMaisie thus becomes involved in evil without knowing it.
Beale is more distinguished than Ida, a “gemmed idol with huge painted eyes,” and Sir Claude would never accept to receive money from such a figure of Carnival as Mrs. Beale are both young, refined and smart while Maisie’s real parents, though handsome, were vulgar and an ill-sorted pair. She trusts her eyes and has not yet learned to penetrate behind the façade of human personality. Quite unaware of the irony of the situation the child protects their adulterous love and finds their union beautiful. Beale, Maisie’s former governess and now her father’s wife.
She is very proud of having done so and naively rejoices in the beauty of her little “creation.” Indeed Maisie succeeds only too well: with a symmetry as dear to James as to Maisie herself Sir Claude, Ida Farange’s new husband, falls in love with Mrs. They use her and want her “not for any good they could do her, but for the harm they could, with her unconscious aid, do each other.” 3 When they separate and marry again they whirl the girl from one house to the other, and she thus becomes the link between her step-parents, whom she finally brings together. 2In spite of her ignorance of evil Maisie is a precocious child because nothing is spared her by her vulgar and immoral parents who quarrel in front of her and do not care to conceal from her the ugly facts of their lives.
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