danger of that. Though Cora flirted mildly with the husbands of the other girls in the Crowd (they all did) she was true to Ray.

Ray was always talking of building a little place of their own. People were beginning to move farther and farther north, into the suburbs.

“Little place of your own,” Ray would say, “that’s the only way to live. Then you’re not paying it all out in rent to the other feller. Little place of your own. That’s the right idear.”

But as the years went by, and Ray earned more and more money, he and Cora seemed to be getting farther and farther away from the right idear. In the $28.50 apartment Cora’s morning marketing had been an orderly daily proceeding. Meat, vegetables, fruit,