Grenville blithely leaves behind his idealism in favor of a more
conventional idea of success, only to have his conscience pricked by Dalrymple's unconventional daughter, Charlotte, an activist for social justice, even as he's entering into a comfortable if passionless engagement with Dalrymple's other daughter, the passive, and much simpler, Emily.
Turbulent times upend
conventional thinking, and one
of the most provocative
ideas to surface in recent years is the doctrine
of «free» — the
idea that giving your product away is the surest, and perhaps only, path to
success.