Still scandalous more than a century after being published! Don't read this if you're a prig or prude.
Actually, nothing immoral about the story. A dysfunctional family with an always away-at-work dad and socialite mom. After falling in love with another man (OMG! SCANDALOUS!), Mom decides to take her life into her own hands and deserts the family she never truly belonged to.
Dear prudes, Edna was a mother to her kids only in the name, so the real immorality happened long before she decided to stop the show.