That building boom would eventually erode by the middle 70's when the unemployment rate quickly went from just over 2% to over 8 %. But Lemke and I we...e as busy as we could have been. He loved my "eye" and my "middle class sense" where he felt I could speak to the "new" class of people who were hiring him for design. (Lemke was an elitist, but mostly from the way the avant-garde rich treated him)He signed me to a 5 year contract and put me into one of his homes near the Capital of New York. He. She tried very hard to accept me but, in the end, through floodsof tears, told me that her life plan was to be married to a successfulhusband with two or three children and she could not contemplate lifewith another woman. We called off the engagement there and then. Soyes, I've paid a big price to earn the right to wear makeup and havelong, flowing, feminine hairstyles but it's been worth it. I'm happy asI am now but staying as I was would only have made me, and thereforeher, more and more. ”Jane smiled at the familiar gambit and replied, “I’m so sorry, sir. Please don’t call the police. I’ll do anything you want.” She hugged him closely and whispered again in his ear, “I’ll do anything you want.”Peter stood back from her then took her by the shoulders, turned her so that she was illumined by the light from the window and pretended to look at her appraisingly for a while. Finally he said, “That’s a lovely dress you have on...take it off.”Jane had been hoping for no less. She. Judy of course was thrilled to see Zoë. Randy's father had also been in the army and Jerry had met him. He did not know him well but it helped as an icebreaker.The two of them left after half an hour, Emma apologising for not being able to feed them at short notice but inviting them both to dinner the following Saturday and to stay the night. They accepted, Zoë particularly happily as she would be able to see Joanna and Simon but not miss a possible further date with Randy.If anything the two.