The Schlegels visit the symphony with Juley and their cousin Frieda Mosebach. Juley bungles her first encounter with the Wilcoxes and Helen is badly embarrassed, but Ruth Wilcox steps in and skillfully settles the crisis. After she leaves, Margaret receives a telegram from Helen saying that the infatuation is over. When Margaret’s aunt, Juley Munt, hears about Helen’s attachment to Paul, she decides to go down to the Wilcox house and meet them. Helen writes that she has fallen in love with Paul Wilcox, despite the great differences between their families-the Schlegels are liberal intellectuals, while the Wilcoxes are generally materialistic, narrow-minded, and unprogressive. Margaret Schlegel reads a series of letters from her sister, Helen, who is visiting the Wilcox family at their home, an old farmhouse called Howards End.
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