Having gotten her Reno divorce, Dominique returns to New York. Wynand meets her at the train station and is ready to go to the judge. Dominique says no; they need to have a big wedding, as befits the great Gail Wynand. After a moment he says OK, that'll take a week to set up; I'll put you up at the hotel of your choice.
And sure enough the wedding takes place, in a big hotel ballroom. The bride wears black. After the ceremony Dominique is surprised to learn the Wynand papers have been banned from covering the wedding. She decides that's a good thing and thanks Wynand.
In his penthouse bedroom that night, she starts to put on her frigid act. Wynand says, "It won't do, Dominique," and she loosens up.
At the Banner a few days later, Scarret and Toohey confer. The paper has received thousands of letters protesting Wynand's wedding. How dare he marry a divorced woman! How dare they not get married in a church! This could be the beginning of a bad trend.
Scarret asks Toohey why he writes on occasion for a lefty magazine, New Frontiers. Rumor has it that Toohey arranged financing for the magazine, which Toohey confirms. Hmm. Then Toohey reveals that he has arranged for Mitchell Layton to buy a large share of the Banner. (How does one make such arrangements?) Layton is kind of a flaky leftist radical.
Wynand doesn't know about this. He's not as watchful of his syndicate as he used to be.
I guess this is going somewhere.
Two chapters to go in Part 3.
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