April Hopes

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 508 words | Copyright

April Hopes, novel by Howells, published in 1888.

The brief engagement of Dan Mavering and Alice Pasmer is broken when Alice fancies that her fiancé is secretly wooing another girl. Their differences are adjusted, but Alice's jealousy is again aroused, and the engagement once more broken. After a brief reconciliation, she leaves him to go abroad with her mother because of a disagreement about plans for their future. They are finally united when Dan promises always to be frank in their life together.

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