Summary

Chapter 19. One afternoon, when Joan is still living alone on Charles Street, the landlord tells Joan that she has a visitor. Downstairs Arthur is waiting for her. Initially, she is ecstatic and flattered that he came for her. However, she soon finds out that his political movement ended and he has come home to Toronto because his parents offered to pay his tuition to university. Arthur is depressed by all of this and Joan makes it her mission to cheer him up.

By spring he proposes to her and they are married at a small house in a nearby neighborhood. When she steps off the bus she is horrified because it is the neighborhood that she lived in when she was a young girl. Inside the house the reverend comes out and it is Leda Sprott from the Spiritualist church where her aunt had taken...