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Show -**-> "You c a n ' t get married now? You need time to get ready." In reply? the bride raised her l e f t hand to display the inexpensive wedding band that the groom had purchased the day before? It was white gold? decorated with a design of orange blossoms? The Professor's wife s t i l l wore i t , but the decoration had long since worn away. They had survived, somehow,1 through the remaiader of the Spring and into the Summer? on the g i r l ' s salary and the boy's small allowance; then in mid-Summer he was selected? in compet i t i o n with two hundred applicants? for a teaching position at a small high school sixty miles south of Salt Lake? For him? the Professor thought now looking back upon i t? the depression ended with that job, although he would be making only eighty dollars a month for the nine-month school year? Their f i r s t child?1 a daughter? was born in the Spring of his second year a t that school (She was now married and living in Chicago); t h e i r second daughter was born two years later"? and by now he was teaching a t a small s t a t e college;in the southern part of the s t a t e (She? too1? was married and living in San Francisco )"? The Professor's martinis had relaxed him? but with the relaxation came a kind of heavy weariness that he took to be a sign of age? He had not r e a l l y begun to feel old u n t i l this year? since his return from the sabbatical? He wished now that he didn't have to drive out to dinner? but i t was either that or putting in one of the frozen dinners his wife had l e f t in |