I excused myself and hurried back to my tent ... where, instead of settling down to work on the third act of my play, I lay prone on my cot, day-dreaming of the future. How beautiful it would be, now that I had at last found my life-mate!
I thanked God that nothing trivial was in my heart to mar the stupendousness of my love, my first real passion for a woman!
"Johnnie!"
I leaped alert. It was Hildreth, at my tent door....
"Get up, you lazy boy ... surely you haven't been sleeping all this time?"
"No, darling."
"I ate my breakfast all alone," she remarked, in an aggrieved tone, "where's Darrie and Mubby and Ruth?"
"God knows! I don't—and I don't care!"
"You needn't be peevish!"