Janice told me not to worry. That Friday night Steve took Janice out to dinner. After dinner she brought him back to our house. He stayed for the enti...e night. I slept on the couch in the basement. Saturday he was back again. During the next week Janice and Steve spent three nights together, one of them at his apartment. The following Friday Janice told Steve about me and we were introduced. At first he was pleasant towards me, but gradually his pleasantness turned into indifference and then. She then called me for a dinner with her as it was almost 10:30PM in the night and it could be much more late till I leave. We had a nice dinner together. I got to know that her Husband had purchased this Bungalow around 40 Years Back in just One and a Half Lakhs (Dedh Lakh). They had 2 Sons and 3 Daughters. Her children are abroad and her husband left her long time ago and now she stayed here completely alone. I felt pity for the VijayaLakshmi- That was her name.After the dinner I checked. I still thought almost daily of howlucky I was to get through all that but still wondered at how much of itthere'd been, far more than any other job interview I'd had. I shut down the computer and made myway out into the corridor, softly lit as always, just my flat in this area.I had to go quite a way before getting to the area occupied by Mr. Hunter,up and down a couple of flights of stairs and through a number of beautifulrooms which had been ballrooms and reception rooms in their day, now. “Oh, stop it Nathan. This Susan, and whatever Rene’s new roommates name is, are probably best friends and she is concerned that they are not sharing a room is all” countered her Mom.The full first name, that was code for if you take it any further you’re in for it. Rene smiled to herself when she heard her Dad’s grunt of acknowledgment. She moved what they had brought up in the first run into small piles she had designated as clothes, toiletries, school supplies, and miscellaneous stuff before.