She was lost in thought for some minutes.
"Are you serious?" she asked, finally.
"Entirely."
"But, do you think it would be interesting—to—any one else?"
"I am sure of it. Of course I shall suppress our real names, but the rest I mean to put in print precisely as it has occurred. If I am not mistaken it will make the hit of the summer season."
She was silent again.
"Doesn't an author have to know—before he begins his story—how it will end?" she asked, after awhile.
"I suppose he does. I certainly know how this one will."
"How?"
"The hero will marry the heroine, make her the happiest woman on earth, and they will live contentedly ever after."