be there when a man gets home from work I’d like to know what she’s good for, anyway.”

The girls in the Crowd said she was spoiling Raymond. She told Ray this. “They think I’m old-fashioned. Well, maybe I am. But I guess I never pretended to be anything but a home girl.”

“That’s right,” Ray would answer. “Say, that’s the way you caught me. With that home-girl stuff.”

“Caught you!” The thin straight line of the mouth. “If you think for one minute — — ”

“Oh, now, dear. You know what I mean, sweetheart. Why, say, I never could see any girl until I met you. You know that.”