Colette writes about her novel, Fear in the Heart: "I can't give a clear yes or no to your question whether I 'like' Hilary or not; but I feel great sympathy for him because his job went wrong, and because neither it nor he could keep their end up.... I think one of the reasons I wrote the book was to have a fling at the blimps and to show Hilary in as sympathetic a light as is compatible with truth." She liked Fitzgerald so much that she "very nearly married him off to Auriel at the end of the book."