The optimist, by E. M. Delafield 68524 [Author: E. M. Delafield] [Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/6/8/5/2/68524] [Files: 68524-0.txt; 68524-h.htm] Thanks to Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Regards, Jacqueline