The Picture of Dorian Gray - Chapter 4

We are drawn into the opulence of Lord Henry's Mayfair library, a room teeming with comfort served in a visual feast of high panelled wainscoting, cream-coloured frieze, and a carpet strewn with silk Persian rugs. Here, Dorian Gray reclines, awaiting the fashionably late Lord Henry. Someone arrives, but it is not Lord Henry. Instead, it is Lady Henry, a woman who defies conventionality with her tempest-dressed appearance and vague forget-me-not eyes. She is perpetually in love but rare...