He's interested in the Laphams & asks the Colonel to take him into the business. Tom met the Lapham ladies on a visit to his mother & sisters & is smitten with one of the girls. He hasn't decided what to do with his life yet. His son, Tom, is more like his grandfather. His father made money & Bromfield has been content to spend it. Anna's husband, Bromfield, is a dilettante. The Coreys are old Boston, a family that has an established position in society. On their summer holiday, Persis & her daughters make the acquaintance of Anna Corey & her daughters. He & his wife, Persis, have two daughters, Penelope & Irene he employs a lot of people at his paint works & his Boston office & he has plans to build a grand new house on the Back Bay, the most select neighbourhood in Boston. Now, in middle-age, Colonel Lapham is a rich man, successful enough to be included in a series of newspaper interviews of the Great Men of Boston. He grew up on a poor New England farm, went off to fight in the Civil War & came back to marry the local schoolteacher & make a successful business out of the mineral paint-mine his father had discovered on his land.
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