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- Margaret travels with Henry to Hilton, where they dine with Charles and Dolly, then take an excursion to Howards End. When they arrive, they realize that they have forgotten the key, and Margaret is left alone on the porch in a driving rain while Henry goes back to get it.
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Margaret travels with Henry to Hilton, where they dine with Charles and Dolly, then take an excursion to Howards End. When they arrive, they realize that they have forgotten the key, and Margaret is left alone on the porch in a driving rain while Henry goes back to get it.
Margaret will inherit Howards End, and she intends to leave it to Helen's child. In other words, Howards End will fall from the materialistic upper class to the idealistic upper class, and thence to an offspring of the upper and lower classes.
At the end of the novel, Margaret, Helen, Helen and Leonard's son, and Henry all live at Howards End; Henry makes provision for Margaret to inherit the house, suggesting that, like the characters of the novel, the classes of England are mixing beyond recognition, and will be forced to adapt to an England that they can all share.
Henry finally gives Margaret ownership of Howards End, like Ruth always wanted, and Margaret plans to leave the house to her nephew when she dies. Leonard may be dead, but his son will inherit Howards End.
this news about Howards End without disdain. In exchange for Howards End, Margaret has decreed she will take no money from Henry’s will.
Margaret laments Henry’s lack of emotion at this meaningful moment in his life as a father. Just as he did when his wife died, he manages affairs “item by item,” reducing them to tasks on an agenda. Margaret still believes that Henry can change such ways under the influence of her love.
