Mal Moulée

'Mal Moulée' is a romance novel by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Seventeen year old Helena Maxon is sent to the prestigious boarding school 'Madame Scranton's Select Academy for young ladies.' Here she is introduced to the beautiful Dolores King, and the two become fast friends. Dolores' past upbringing however seems to cast a shadow on her prospects of ever falling in love and getting married. That is, until she met Percy Durand who was just as cynical about marriage. And the first chapter was written in a romance which was to end in astonishing results...