In the first half of the session we continued to textually analyze Daisy's "inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence"-a central theme of the novel. We discussed how Daisy claims that she does not wish to do anything improper but then openly flaunts convention insisting to Winterborne that she "never allows a gentleman to dictate to me ." We discussed how the novel is in fact a study of how Daisy plays both the innocent, the rebel, and the disingenuous. I further pointed out how James' explores the conscious mind of Winterborne, a device quite new in 1878. During the second half of the session, Joshua completed vocabulary exercises based on vocabulary words taken from the novel.