![]() ![]() Danny continues pursuing his medical career despite having dreams of following in his father’s footsteps by buying real estate, and Maeve works as an accountant. Part 2 covers the lives that Danny and Maeve build in the 1970s and 1980s following their expulsion from the Dutch House. Eager to get what little revenge she can by draining the educational trust, Maeve compels Danny to go to an expensive boarding school, pre-med at Columbia, and medical school. Andrea forces Danny to leave the house two weeks after Cyril’s death, forcing Maeve to raise him. In 1963, Cyril dies of a heart attack, and Andrea inherits everything except for an educational trust for the children. ![]() Within two years of meeting the Conroy children, Andrea marries Cyril, and her two daughters Norma and Beatrice (called Bright) move into the Dutch House. Elna left years before to do charity work in India after she couldn’t acclimate to the sudden wealth and living in the Dutch House, a large, overwhelming mansion where the remaining Conroys are living at the start of the novel. Cyril is divorced from Elna, Danny and Maeve’s mother. In Part 1, Danny and Maeve meet Andrea, the new girlfriend of their father, Cyril, a self-made man whose real estate business helped him and his family rise from poverty to wealth. ![]()
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