There is nothing I can do--now." She sent for her mother that night.

The next morning Simmy Dodge came down with George Tresslyn, who steadfastly refused to enter the house but rode to the hospital with his mother and sister in Simmy's automobile.

Anne did not see Braden again after that momentous interview in the library.

He had effaced himself.
Now she sat in the window looking down into the street, dull and listless and filled with the dread of the future that had once looked so engaging to her.

The picture that avarice and greed had painted was gone.