ABSTRACT
Julie deals with the practicalities and social reality. The Tutor writes from the Valais about wandering the ethereal heights. Distressed by a sense of advancing age and by social obligations, he felt that he had never known entire emotional fulfillment. Zilia's ambiguous progress becomes here the dialectic of nature and social order; but desire throughout is for the order of 'ce qui n'est pas'. Zilia, though distressed by French society, at least found companionship with Deterville and his sister Celine. Julie however hints at a new possibility. It may be, she tells the Tutor, that she will need to withdraw from all social activities. The expulsion is foreshadowed when Julie tells the Tutor that her father the Baron is about to return home. Julie deals with the practicalities and social reality. While Julie struggles to protect her lover and their relationship, the Tutor remains as usual in happy ignorance.
