I had foreseen all this, though I could not have foreseen the passionately intense interest which my readers would take in the life-story of these unhappy yet happy people.

I had, however, only one reply.

It was that all I had meant to say concerning Charley and Rosalie had been said in the book, to the last word.

All I had meant not to say would not be said after the book was written.

I asked them to take exactly the same view of Charley and Rosalie as they would in real life regarding two human beings with whom they were acquainted, and concerning whom, to their minds, there was sufficient evidence, or not sufficient evidence, to come to a conclusion as to what their relations were.