In which the author, Mr. Walter Besant, recounts the solemn and earnest task entrusted to him of completing the unfinished novel *Blind Love* by the late Wilkie Collins, guided by detailed notes and a precisely laid-out scenario. He modestly details his faithful adherence to Collins’s plot and dialogue, admitting only a single minor moment of uncertainty, and expresses a heartfelt wish that Collins might have finished his final work himself.