apartment. Sometimes Ray worked in the bathroom. He grew rather to like the white-tiled place, with its look of a laboratory. But then, he didn’t have as much time to work at home as he formerly had had. They went out more evenings.

The new four-room flat rented at sixty dollars. “Seems the less room you have the more you pay,” Ray observed.

“There’s no comparison. Look at the neighbourhood! And the living room’s twice as big.”

It didn’t seem to be. Perhaps this was due to its furnishings. The Mission pieces had gone to the second-hand dealer. Ray was assistant manager of the optical department at Nagel’s now and he was getting royalties on a new smoked glass device. There were large over-stuffed