What role does friendship play in The Chaperone, if any? Do Cora and Louise become friends?

Moriarty uses The Age of Innocence as a foil to her novel’s storyline. What other works of literature could she have used in this way?

Discuss the importance of family relationships, particularly parent-child relationships, in the novel. Is Cora justified in her statement that “Louise was the real orphan at the table” (280)?