He read up all he could about hell so as to be able to talk with Georgiana, but in the end it failed: a young minister fresh from college came and preached at St.Osoph's six special sermons on the absolute certainty of eternal punishment, and he married Miss McTeague as a result of it.
And, meantime, Mr.Spillikins had got engaged, or practically so, to Adelina Lightleigh; not that he had spoken to her, but he considered himself bound to her.

For her sake he had given up hell altogether, and was dancing till two in the morning and studying action bridge out of a book.

For a time he felt so sure that she meant to have him that he began bringing his greatest friend, Edward Ruff of the college football team, of whom Spillikins was very proud, up to the Lightleighs' residence.

He specially wanted Adelina and Edward to be great friends, so that Adelina and he might ask Edward up to the house after he was married.

And they got to be such great friends, and so quickly, that they were married in New York that autumn.