Chapter 22 Summary

It is another early morning in the Winters' household; the kitchen telephone rings and Reta answers it. The male voice on the other end of the telephone introduces himself as Arthur Springer from her publishers, Scribano & Lawrence. He informs Reta that he has the honor of being her new editor. Of course, he can never really replace old Mr. Scribano, but he is willing to place himself entirely at her service. He believes that he can be of more help to her in the writing of her new novel, Thyme in Bloom, if Reta would just send him the first draft of anything she has already written. Reta protests that much of the novel is only in her mind, and that there is really no first draft in existence at all. Arthur suggests that perhaps Reta would find it helpful to read another...