The House of Mirth: Forshadowing

So Lily now suspects that her recent "luck" in the stock market is not really lucky at all.  She has received numerous hits from the very wealthy and aspiring social-cliber, Simon Rosedale, who is close friends with Gus Trenor.  Mr. Trenor is also giving off a for boding sense of the fact that Lily is indebted to him.  I feel really bad for her in the sense that she doesn't wish to spend time with either Gus Trenor or Simon Rosedale, but in her current circumstance, she is forced to.  Lilly thinks, "it was distasteful enough to hear her name coupled with Trenor's, and on Rosedale's lips the allusion was peculiarly unpleasant" (Wharton, 92).  Lily certainly isn't making any friends with her snobbish attitude.  In my opinion, she is also far too confident for her own good.  She thinks that she is above everyone else because of her extravagant looks and him social status; however, she doesn't realize the enemies that she's making along the way.  One particularly dangerous enemy Lily creates with her snobbish attitude is her cousin Grace Stepney, whom Lily had uninvited from a party at their aunt Mrs. Peniston's house.  Grace in turn tells Mrs. Peniston of the rumors flying around about Lily's recent actions.  She informs Lily's aunt of Lily's recent affiliations with Gus Trenor and of her mountain of gambling debts.  I immediately don't like Grace Stepney at all and I think she could potential be even more dangerous further into the novel.  She seems one of those characters who is simply out to get everyone else and for no apparent reason.  She already doesn't like Lily because she was not invited to the party, and I think she'll now take every opportunity to get back at her.  Lily better watch out because she now has much more than one enemy and a lot to lose. Again, she's walking on thin ice.