The Definite Object

Sort of skimmed it. Cute in sections, but there were whole chapters that failed to hold my interest, where the ne'er-do-wells plot and scheme in thick nineteenth century New York slang. The rest of the plot is about Geoffrey, a wealthy young man who decides he needs more purpose in life and finds it by renting a room at a tenement house for impoverished people and seeing how the other side lives. Of course, he immediately falls in love with a poor but noble gentlewoman who is bending her every effort to put food on the table and keep her young brother out of serious trouble.