Nicholas had telephoned Aunt Mary the previous evening, after he and Peggy had decided that the date for their wedding should be the following week, as soon as arrangements could be made. He had asked Aunt Mary to meet him in Wakefield, and later in the Brown Palace Hotel lobby, after Aunt Mary had told him the whole history of Peggy's relationship with Bill Mead, he had confessed that he was deeply in love with Peggy. After Mary left, he went to his room and paced nervously as he looked back over his time in Wakefield...