Summary

Dexter's father owns the second most successful grocery store in the town. He is a golf caddy at a Golf Club in Black Bear Lake. Dexter meets Judy Jones and works for her father, Mortimer Jones. Dexter has a crush on her. One day, he was assigned to caddy for her but quits instead. After college, Dexter gets involved in a partnership in a laundry business. He returns to the Sherry Island Golf Club and is invited to play golf with the men for he had once worked for. He meets back up with Judy Jones again on the golf course, only now she is older and prettier. Later in the evening Dexter swims to a raft in the lake, and runs into Judy, who is driving a motor boat. She asks him to take over while she rides on a surfboard attached to the boat. After, Judy invites Dexter to dinner, where they begin to go out. He soon finds that he is one of the many men she is with. After a long time, Dexter becomes engaged to Irene Scheerer, while Judy is vacationing in Florida. When Judy returns, however, she again gets Dexter's to fall in love with her and asks him to marry her. Dexter breaks off his engagement with Irene, only to be dumped again by Judy a month later. To deal with his pain, Dexter joins the army. After the War, seven years later, Dexter has become a businessman in New York City. He had become rich and hadn't visited his home in years. One day, a man, Devlin, visits Dexter for business. During the meeting, Devlin mentions a Judy Simms, Judy Jones, the wife of one his friends and explains how she is a housewife. Dexter becomes interested and learns from Devlin ,that Judy had gotten married and her beauty had faded. her husband is also mean to her. Dexter is sad, as he still had love and hope for Judy.