"I'm not a bit ashamed of it."
"Why should you be?"
"Aren't you a literary pariah, if you're a best-seller?"
He laughed.
"How is the play coming on?"
"Pretty well, I think. We're up to the climax of the second act. Jarvis is working on it to-day."
"Still no suspicion of you?"
"Not a grain. I think he's falling in love with the author of 'Francesca,' though."
"How?"
"Through their letters."