After recovering from scarlet fever, Cornelia lodges with a poor family in the Vale of Bewling (423).

Despite her illness, Cornelia continues travelling until finally stopping at an inn in Newbury where she faints.

Cornelia forfeits her home to Ethel and Villiers, leaving immediately and driving to Reading, where she begins to feel ill (394).

Living near Park Lane, Cornelia grieves Saville's marriage and begins to slip into despair.

After losing her mother and receiving news of Lodore's death, Cornelia is living in Brighton, "[secluding] herself, not in absolute solitude, but in

When Villiers attempts to visit Cornelia, he is told that she is away on holiday at Baden, a popular spa town in Germany (177.)

Cornelia attempts to follow Lodore to Havre in order to regain custody of Ethel, but she is stopped at Southampton by a "tempestuous" sea (134).

After learning of Lodore's illegitimate son, Cornelia refuses to leave England with her husband.

Lodore and Cornelia are living in London near Berkeley Square with two-year-old Ethel when their marriage begins to disintegrate.