What is the point of being deceptive? In Roman fever, Edith Wharton discusses Alida and Grace 's dispute over their love delphin. The dispute over their love causes a major deception between Alida and Grace. Alida did confess she wrote the letter but who had barbara and what 's her motive and how is it even related to jealousy and deception that started this confusion. The deception started as Grace and Alida started to argue about the letter. Then Alida had confessed that she had written the letter,"well my dear, I know what was in the letter because I wrote it". This clearly meant that Alida had been misleading Grace the whole time by creating this letter. Alida wanted delphin to be hers only so she wrote this letter so she could