The first character that is formally introduced in Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two” is twelve-year-old Lily Haskett. Initially, her role in the main setting of the plot seems secondary. Upon further investigation, however, Lily proves to be an integral part of the story. She manages to indirectly control much of the plot: she is part of the reason that Waythorn invites himself into their lives, since Mrs.Waythorn’s “affection for the child had perhaps been her decisive charm in Waythorn's eyes”; Lily is the reason the honeymoon is cut short, and, therefore, draws Waythorn and her mother back home, and she is the reason that Waythorn and Haskett converge (Wharton, 500). What is even more intriguing than her role, however, is the fact that Lilly’s
