![]() It is too impractical for a man with his career he tells her. Kitty, blinded by love, thinks Charlie, who is also married, will leave his wife for her and they will live happily together. ![]() When Walter finds out, he asks Kitty to either come with him to Mei-tan-fu or he will sue her for adultery. Kitty was never happy in her marriage, and thus she finds herself in an adulterous affair with Charlie Townsend, a man of some influence and status in Hong Kong. Out of desperation, she married Walter Fane, a scientist, and returned with him to Hong Kong where he conducted his work. Kitty shared these social ambitions but could never find the right mate. Kitty, an Englishwoman, had been pressured from a young age to marry well by her mother, who tried to overcome her own sense of failure through her daughters. ![]() There, amid death and misery, Kitty sees in a convent of French nuns great examples of self-sacrifice and the kind of happiness she had always wanted. After basically ruining her marriage with an affair, Kitty accompanies her husband, Walter, to Mei-tan-fu, a Chinese province afflicted with a cholera epidemic. ![]()
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