By practicing Centralism, Hingham turns his life around: he posts record sales for the company and rekindles his waning romance with his girlfriend Rose. But he founders when his boss sends him to the company’s annual sales convention, and Rose begins to find him so eerily predictable that she ends their love affair. When Hingham travels to Broad View to meet Dr. Modesto, he discovers that his guru is an inmate in an insane asylum; the “revelations” that ignited Hingham’s success have been the promulgations of a lunatic.
