Maisie Timeline and Summary

Maisie's parents get divorced.
Maisie is passed back and forth, from one parent to the other.
Maisie has one governess at each of her parents' houses: Miss Overmore and Mrs. Wix.
Maisie's parents remarry: Ida Farange marries a man named Sir Claude, and Beale Farange marries the governess Miss Overmore, who now goes by Mrs. Beale.
Maisie brings her stepparents together. They share a love for her, but soon enough, they share much more than that.
On separate walks with Mrs. Beale and Sir Claude, Maisie discovers that both of her birth parents are betraying her stepparents.
Sir Claude thinks this means he and Mrs. Beale are free to start a new family with Maisie.
Mrs. Wix disapproves. Having been true to Maisie all along, she tries to teach her "moral sense" (XXVI.1)
Maisie travels to France with Sir Claude, and the two are soon followed by Mrs. Wix and Mrs. Beale.
Here's where Maisie must decide whom to spend her future with.
Her choice to live with Mrs. Wix shows that the governess's lessons have been worthwhile after all: Maisie has moral sense. What's more, she has Mrs. Wix's love and care.