Edith Wharton

A prostitute who is acquainted with Ashby and Hank claims that Hank is better in bed. Karen comes under the spell of a self-help guru. Charlie pitches himself as an agent, and wants to help Daisy with her porn career.

Vince's birthday seems to signal a promising new year as his hot new agent, Amanda, pushes him to do an Edith Wharton period film; Eric and Vince have lunch with Ari.

Newland Archer, an affluent lawyer in 1870s New York, is engaged to May Welland, a beautiful but conventional socialite. Newland begins to question the life he has planned for himself after the arrival of May's cousin, the exotic and sophisticated Countess Ellen Olenska. Ellen is seeking a divorce from her abusive husband, a Polish count, who has made her a social outcast and greatly displeases her family, who are afraid of scandal. As Newland grows to care more and more deeply for Ellen, having convinced her not to press for a divorce, he becomes increasingly disillusioned with the society to which he belongs and the idea of entering into a passionless marriage with May.

The story is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s. In 1920, The Age of Innocence was published twice; first in four parts, July - October, in the Pictorial Review magazine, and then by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness.