Becky is inexhaustible and never gives up. She is the novel's eternal optimist, especially about herself. As soon as Rawdon leaves her, she immediately sets off to get his brother Pitt to reconcile them. When that doesn't work, she bums around Europe until she runs into a still-furious Lord Steyne, and without skipping a beat she tries to see if he'll have her back. Amelia, meanwhile, sinks back down into mopey mode, sighing over her dead husband and ignoring the long-suffering Dobbin. She doesn't even have the mental energy to get past a two-month marriage that ended ten years earlier.