Jerry Junior was to come next.
He understood why she had been so complaisant to-day.

She wished the curtain to go down on the comedy note.

To-morrow, the nameless young American, the 'Abraham Lincoln' of the register, would call--by the gate--would be received graciously, introduced in his proper person to the guests; the story of the donkey-man would be recounted and laughed over, and he would be politely asked when he was planning to resume his travels.

This would be the end of the episode.

To Constance, it had been merely an amusing farce about which she could boast when she returned to America.