FIDELITY
A NOVEL
BY SUSAN GLASPELL
Author of "The Glory of the Conquered," "The Visioning," ETC.
BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY
Publishers
Copyright, 1915
By Small, Maynard and Company
(INCORPORATED)
Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston U.S.A.
TO
LUCY HUFFAKER
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
FIDELITY
CHAPTER ONE
It was hard to get back into the easy current of everyday talk. CoraAlbright's question had too rudely pulled them out of it, disturbing thequiet flow of inconsequential things. Even when they had recovered andwere safely flowing along on the fact that the new hotel was to cost twohundred thousand dollars, after they had moved with apparent serenity tolamentation over a neighbor who was sick in bed and without a cook, itwas as if they were making a display of the ease with which they c