The Supercilious Sacrifice
- We look in on Amory walking the boardwalk in Atlantic City. And who should pull up next to him but his old roommate Alec?
- Alec is hanging with a couple of ladies and figures that Amory could use a fun night on the town. So Amory accepts and hops in the car.
- Once they're out, Amory wants to talk about the guys they've known who died in World War I. Alec doesn't want to talk about something so dreary, though.
- Amory is silent and thinks about how his youth is gone and he has nothing to look forward to.
- That night, Amory wakes up and hears Alec talking to one of the girls he's brought home.
- It sounds like there are some cops outside and that Alec is going to be busted for hiring a prostitute (the girl he's with). With quick thinking, Amory jumps out of bed and tells Alec to lie down and pretend he's drunk.
- Amory totally takes the heat and gets his name published in the paper as a dude who's been caught with a prostitute. Yeah, folks were pretty big into the idea of public shaming back in the early 20th century.
- Two days later, Amory picks up a newspaper and sees the paragraph about him being caught with a prostitute. Right below the paragraph, he sees an announcement about his old flame Rosalind being engaged to some rich dude named Ryder. Amory is crushed by the news.