CHAPTER XXII.
As she sat there she grew furious with herself for having bungled so.
Why hadn't she explained to him?
Why hadn't she simply told him her plan for giving him back his friends?
All at once she could hear herself saying what she should have said to Joe: "I may have been wrong about it, Joe, but I thought the best way to bring you back to all the things you used to love was to let you think _you_ were doing it.

So I let you and Dwight come together alone.

I kept in the background, as I did about getting you into that club of yours.

I was afraid to show my hand." On and on she talked to him.

Oh, how simple and convincing, strong, and sensible and true.