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What Katharine saw as a story of transformation If transformations they were, it was only in the play of her exquisite inventiveness and the service of her love tragically unrequited , of life. But perhaps the seeming mistakes, the misplacements of her confidence and the ultimate betrayals were less real than the transmutation they worked*

Katharine lived long enough to finish "The Little Locksmith" and read the fan letters written by readers of The Atlantic Monthly although its publication as a book occurred only after her death in 1942 in Salem.

Chapter Five

The defeated countries of Europe were still of the signs of widespread, grim poverty by the end of the twenties with which the comings and goings of the profiteers of disaster contrasted unpleasantly. In adjectives which were heard continually in ordinary conversation were "thrifty" or "economical" and no greater recommendation could be offered than ....and it's very cheap." Persons