Part 4 Summary

The night of the dinner and theater party arrives. Work prevents Joel from attending the dinner, but he goes later to the theater to meet Stella. He spots Stella shortly after he arrives and is enchanted by her beauty. Noting that she is alone, he asks where Miles is. Stella tells him that Miles went to South Bend, after all, and is now on his way home. The pair goes into the theater and any doubts or guilt Joel has about being with Stella vanish.

During intermission, Stella tells Joel that the rest of their party is going to a nightclub after the show, but she would prefer to go back to her house so that they could talk. However she thinks Miles may be watching them. When Joel replies that the telegram Miles sent from South Bend proves he was there, Stella...