eleven o'clock before
`` I believe it will succeed , '' she answered , her heart glowing with the consciousness of the intimacy of that little word `` our '' he had used . She got pad and pencil , and Gordon dictated to her a plan for engaging every force of the church and its congregation and various societies in the project . He fixed the Sunday on which to make the effort of his life in his appeal to the people of his congregation and the world for the million-dollar fund needed . It was eleven o'clock before they finished the discussion of the scheme , and aglow with enthusiasm he left for his home . As he sat down in the car and lived over again his happiness of the past hours in this woman 's companionship the paradox of his return in a few minutes to the arms of his wife struck him squarely in the face for the first time . He could not plead a mistake in his first love . His romance was genuine .