The desolate Soames learns that his wife is having an affair with a Belgian, and discovers that Irene's house, Robin Hill, is empty and to let. She marries Michael Mont, the heir to a baronetcy, and when young Jolyon dies Irene leaves to join Jon in America. In To Let Fleur and Jon fall in love Jon's father feels compelled to reveal the past of Irene and Soames, and the agonized Jon, in spite of Fleur's Forsyte determination, rejects her. Meanwhile Soames marries Annette Lamotte and they have a daughter, Fleur. In Chancery describes the growing love of young Jolyon, Soames's cousin, for Irene Irene's divorce from Soames and her happy marriage with Jolyon and the birth of their son Jon. Bosinney is killed in a street accident and Irene returns to Soames. He marries the penniless Irene and builds a country house for her, Robin Hill when she falls in love with its architect, Bosinney, Soames asserts his rights over his property and rapes her. As Irene Forsyte, in the new, eight-part Masterpiece Theatre version of 'The Forsyte Saga' (based on the first two books of the trilogy by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Galsworthy). Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor, the nephew of ‘old Jolyon’, lives in London surrounded by his prosperous old uncles and their families. The three novels containing the story, The Man of Property (1906), In Chancery (1920), and To Let (1921, with two interludes, ‘Indian Summer of a Forsyte’, 1918, and Awakening, 1920), appeared together in 1922 as The Forsyte Saga, tracing the fortunes of three generations of the Forsyte family.
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