Chapter 4 considers George Eliot’s use of Lydia Glasher and her story as central to Daniel Deronda. Eliot invites readers into the home of the kept woman, and demonstrates that it is remarkably like that of the proper Victorian wife, thereby challenging these very categories (and making a point Evans herself makes via her own lived experience). Unlike Nancy, Esther, and Ruth, Lydia triumphs in her novel: she actively uses both her presence and voice to secure resources, and ultimately an inheritance, for her children. This, plus the fact that she lives, is a happy ending for a kept woman. Readers can appreciate Lydia’s activity in the face of Grandcourt (a cruel keeper) and Gwendolen, who initially takes care of Lydia’s narrative, but then must act against her due to her own socioeconomic straits. Appreciating Lydia as a woman acting to secure not only her own keep, but the future of her children, is a way for readers to care for this character and her narrative.