Is There a Prince Charming in the Book?

I almost think it becomes a sort of joke between the author and the reader. But we can see what she an't first of all, he's not honourable. He is married, has, as you say, no intention of coming back. You know, i don't know why he sends her the drawing, except that it probably pleases him to think of her pining a little bit. And maybe he's proud of his artistic accomplishments. One interesting thing about the drawing is that when edna o'brian revised the story and changed the title of it to put into her collection, she changed the drawing from looking like mary but prettier, to lookinglike mary