`` How are you going to end it -- happily or unhappily ? '' `` I 'm not sure . I 'd like it to end unhappily , because that would be so much more romantic . But I understand editors have a prejudice against sad endings . I heard Professor Hamilton say once that nobody but a genius should try to write an unhappy ending . And , '' concluded Anne modestly , `` I 'm anything but a genius . '' `` Oh I like happy endings best . You 'd better let him marry her , '' said Diana , who , especially since her engagement to Fred , thought this was how every story should end . `` But you like to cry over stories ? '' `` Oh , yes , in the middle of them . But I like everything to come right at last . '' `` I must have one pathetic scene in it , '' said Anne thoughtfully . `` I might let ROBERT RAY be injured in an accident and have a death scene . '' `` No , you must n't kill BOBBY off , '' declared Diana , laughing . `` He belongs to me and I want him to live and flourish . Kill somebody else if you have to . '' For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled , according to mood , in her literary pursuits . Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea , now despairing because some contrary character would NOT behave properly . Diana could not understand this . `` MAKE them do as you want them to , '' she said .
`` I ca n't , '' mourned XXXXX .
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