Anthony has just started soldier boot camp in the South.

His relationship with Gloria is still strained, nothing new. He wonders what she's doing half the time but she doesn't write back a whole lot.

While walking the streets of the town that's near his camp, he hears some laughter from these two girls staring at him. (TBT to Book Two: Chapter One when Anthony kept hallucinating a girl's laughthe night before his wedding...) (Oh it's coming back full circle...)

• He then approaches these two girls and asks if he can walk with them, in which they agreed to. He also happens to take an interest in one of the girl's - Dot.

• After Dot's friend decides to walk home, Anthony asks if Dot would like to see a movie with him. Dot was quite hesitant at first, but she ended up saying yes.

This is where Anthony begins an affair with Dorothy "Dot" Raycroft. (Yep. It came down to this.)

Dot also has some history behind her, much like Gloria.

• She's had three romantic involvements before, but these involvements gave her an image she was never too fond of. Also, these relationships endedpretty badly, so Dot made a vow to herself to never be assertive when it came to men who were interested in her. If they wanted to kiss her, they should be allowed to without Dot having any sort of feelings.

• When Anthony came to the picture however, it was different. He made it seem like he cared and Dot started to have feelings for him.

• Also, she's nineteen.

The day Anthony kissed Dot for the first time, he wrote Gloria a lengthy letter about love and tenderness. (Oh, come on!) 

Anthony and Gloria, as far as their letters went, boiled down to receiving a letter once a week. 

• Gloria is pretty bored without Anthony around, so she proposes that she'll come and visit him at camp, but Anthony urgers her not to.

• His reasoning?

1. He needs a break from her as much as she needs a break from him.

2. She would be bored here anyway, and Anthony is on strict hours when it comes to visitation.

3. He thinks he's attracted to Dot now. (Except, he didn't tell Gloria this in the letter.)

Anthony greatly feared that Gloria would find out about his affair, but he definitely wasn't going to end it anytime soon.

• He enjoys going out late-at-night with Dot way too much because he enjoys the fact that they're not on the same level of equals as him and Gloria. Also, with Dot, he doesn't feel miserable. He feels renewed, and that's most likely because Dot is pretty young which allows Anthony to feel young around her.

Dot also knows vaguely about Gloria, but assumes Gloria is much older than Anthony and that there's no love between them.

• Dot also hopes that Anthony will divorce Gloria one day.

Anthony gets promoted to corporal-in-training, which is kind of big considering he's known for being lazy and irresponsible at home - and here he is, being responsible for other soldiers and having to bark out orders.

Gloria's letter got so infrequent and so much more hurried that she finally stopped mentioning about the possibility of visiting Anthony at camp. (Something's up...my senses can feel it...)

Anthony receives notice that has to move to another camp in Georgia for officer training, and Dot took it rather harshly.

• She actually freaked Anthony out at one point because she kept exclaiming she rather die if she can't be with him at this new camp, but then Anthony told her he would end up in France anyway so their relationship was never supposed to go anywhere to begin with.

• Dot realizes where she stands and tells Anthony to just go away, but then Anthony realizes how much power his "Little Dot" has over him and all of a sudden he just gave in and asked her to come with him. (Anthony, you're a little idiot.) 

Anthony begins to question Gloria's love for him, given that the last letter he received from her was from two weeks ago.

• He became infatuated with the idea of Gloria having an affair much like he is, given how cold and short these letters from her have been recently. 

• He realized that this affair with Dot is absolutely tedious. 

Anthony managed to get some money from his broker to put Dot in a boarding house downtown.

When Anthony got a notice that a lady had called his camp's headquarters, he hoped it was Gloria.

• Instead, it was Dot telling Anthony goodbye.

• Anthony, scared out of his mind, assumed Dot was about to kill herself, and rushes to go to the boarding house.

• Dot wasn't trying to kill herself though, she just wanted to see Anthony.

• Because Anthony was extremely overwhelemed by this but also the consequences of this affair, he just kept crying in her arms. 

Back at the camp, Anthony noticed he received two letters. One from Gloria, which was rather far-removed and very short, talking about how they need to have a conference soon, and another from Dot, which was an entire letter of protest for their love.

Anthony was going mad. 

The Germans also surrendered, which means Anthony's no longer going to France and the war is over. So Anthony took the next train to New York to see Gloria.

When he arrived at the apartment, Gloria wasn't home - it looked like she had just went out.

• The phone began to ring and Anthony picked it up, and the voice had asked for Gloria, but Anthony told the caller Gloria isn't home and if they had an idea where she would possibly be. TThe caller, who we find out is Mr. Crawford, said that Gloria had an interest in going to the Armistice Ball today, but it was too early to be going to this ball now.

• Anthony, questioning the relation between Mr. Crawford and Gloria, began to go mad and start through the house looking for anything that showed that Gloria cheated. (Because - ya'know - she can't be unfaithful as well.)

• Anthony then finds in the corner of her drawer all the letters he had ever written to her tied up in a little ribbon. That's when Anthony completely lost it - "'I'm not fit to touch  her,' he cried aloud to the four walls. 'I'm not fit to touch her little hand'" (288).

Looking for Gloria amongst a crowd of people celebrating in the streets, he finally found Gloria sitting at a table for two outside of some little restaurant. "Her kiss was a cool rill flowing from her heart" (289).