It had been an eventful evening at the Lane household - an evening which started out as a celebration, but ended, especially for Peggy and Bill, on a note of grave disappointment. The board of directors at the bank had refused to reconsider its request for the young man's resignation. They had conceded that Carla's account of her tragic quarrel with her husband absolved Bill, but they insisted that Bill was nonetheless guilty in a moral sense for breaking up the Descari home.