Chapter 16

• From Juliet’s words, not only were Mrs. Sterling and Gabriel displeased, but the others also looked at Catherine with disdain.
• Catherine clenched her fists. Juliet’s crude manipulation of the truth was obvious, yet these people who considered themselves of high intellectual stature were easily swayed. To her, they weren’t siding with Juliet out of sympathy but rather to curry favor with the Sterling family.
• If she left today without doing anything, the label of being selfish and unreasonable would stick to her, and in the future, whenever she appeared in public, people would point and gossip about her.