Egads. Happy endings, I need 'em! But yes, that outcome is just as likely.
I reread the Dorothy Sayers novels often--they're part of my comfort reading. That, and her line in that same book, when she's trying to write Peter a letter and can't get it down on paper: "It's a simple piece of English prose on a set subject." That has bucked me up when I'm stuck on a piece of writing many times!