[英]新開地, 開墾地

Straddling this trio is the celebrated journalist himself, Marina's father, Murray Thwaite, the emperor. 橫跨在這三重唱之上的還是那位記者本人，馬蓮娜的父親，莫里斯維特，書中的國王。

Marina Thwaite, Danielle Minkoff and Julius Clarke met at Brown University, and left believing they were destined to do important things. 馬蓮娜斯維特，丹尼爾明柯夫和朱利葉斯克拉克同在布朗大學上學，畢業(yè)時都認為各自會干一番大事。

Seeley sucks up to Thwaite, but secretly believes he is a fraud, a “Wizard of Oz, a tiny, pointless man roaring behind a curtain”, and he plots his ruin as he seduces his daughter. 斯利雖然拍著斯維特的馬屁，但卻認為他是一個騙子，一個“綠野仙蹤里，矮小的，無足輕重的，在幕邊叫喊的小角色”，并且要通過誘導斯維特的女兒來毀掉斯維特。