Ind.Reading Ch.1-10

After the author’s first success because of his first book he was invited to a house of Mrs. Strickland for a lunch.  She usually organized lunches for different authors because she wanted to be in the movement.  She had a husband, who pretended to be a kind of dull persons, and two children, a boy and a girl. The author started to go to pleasant little luncheons at her flat regularly. And one day she asked Mrs. Strickland to introduce him to her husband, despite the fact that he was a he's a typical broker and very boring person.

So, at their first meeting Mr. Strickland’s appearance did not coincide with the image which was in the head of narrator. He was a man of forty, not good-looking, and yet not ugly, for his features were rather good; but they were all a little larger than life-size, and the effect was ungainly.  He was just a good, dull, honest, plain man. 

Suddenly, the narrator knew about the fact that Charles Strickland had run away from his wife, he had gone off to Paris with a woman and had left Amy without a penny. Everyone was shocked by this fact because Amy and Charles had lived together for 17 years without any quarrels.

Mrs. Strickland asked the narrator to go to France and to beg Charles to return to her and their children.