I had dreamed deliciously all night of Hildreth ... was strangely not unsatisfied—when I woke again to the hell of the reality her letter had plunged me into.
Mrs. Rond ... of course I finally took her into my confidence, and told her the entire story....
"Not to speak in disparagement of Hildreth, I knew it all along, Johnnie ... knew that this would be the result ... but come, come, you have bigger things in you ... Penton Baxter will win his divorce sooner or later. Hildreth has another man, poor little girl! You have all that God means you to have at present: Your first book!"
THE END