This article: Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride, Lily Prine, to his family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters, Carrie and Anna, welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts. Julian tells them that, though his factory went out of business, he did manage to save money.  Although the sisters are sceptical, there is much talk of a long-hoped-for trip to Europe for the two sisters.  In fact, Julian has money from a real estate deal that he pulled off with the help of a former lover, Charlotte Warkins, who is now in an abusive marriage. Carrie is obsessed with her brother. Her jealousy, deriving from her sublimated incestuous desires for her brother, is aimed at Lily.  Carrie tricks Lily into informing Charlotte's husband of a rendezvous between Charlotte and Julian, at which Julian was to give Charlotte her half of the money, and Charlotte was then going to leave her husband and flee town.  Charlotte's husband sends thugs who beat up Julian, maim Charlotte and take both halves of the money. Julian  discovers that Carrie manipulated Lily into making the phone call to Charlotte's husband, by convincing Lily that Julian and Charlotte were going to leave together.  After Carrie hurls insults at Julian and Anna, telling them they will both be failures, both leave the house, Julian to find and reconcile with Lily, and Anna to Europe.  Carrie is left alone, deluding herself into thinking they will both return one day. contains an answer for the question: What is the full name of the person whose sisters welcome a couple?, what is it ?
Julian Berniers