Blanche's Decision to Be Engaged to Henry Barnet

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Blanche, at this point, begins to get pretty practical and realize that the european vacation that roland just returned from is not something she'd be able to have in her life with barney. And so roland makes hus play. He reached across the table with the mispo ring he had given her before, the one she had thrown across the room. She decides that she will be engaged to roland. Henry barnet walked out after hearing about Blanche's decision. Shortly after, she learned that he was very sick, and he is vomiting, and he has an inflamed throat and tongue, and he can't eat.

In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She brought a portrait of her parents, a vase for flowers, and her piano. She later said, “music had been my one absorbing interest,” and that she wasn’t interested in getting married. But eventually, she agreed to anyway. When she returned home from her honeymoon, she learned her husband was suspected of murder.

April White’s book is The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

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