Summary

Lyman is not sure exactly what happened in the ensuing months, but he does know Susan took Ollie to St. Paul’s in August a month before school was to start. She leaves him with the headmaster. Lyman feels she did this because Ollie looked at her accusingly and her guilt became more pronounced. Why he wonders did her son look at her this way? Of what was she guilty? Ollie would not see his mother for ten years. It was as if he were shunning her. He would see his father when his father would make trips East or they would meet in places away from his parents’ home.

Susan feels a great guilt and instead of going to New York and taking rooms as she had planned to work on her writing and drawing, she and Betsy get on a train going...