/0/4627/coverbig.jpg?v=20210813185534)
He never doubted that, when at length the time came for the great change-though perhaps not until the last moment-Valerie would consent to marry him. Because, so far in his life of twenty-eight years, everything he had desired very much had come true-everything he had really believed in and worked for, had happened as he foresaw it would, in spite