ABSTRACT
Six to eight months have passed. The picture of the young family we followed in the last chapter is now very different. The girl, in a smart little pair of shorts and red shoes, comes briskly in by herself at 5 o'clock. She is going to take a tap dancing class for some children. Her husband is now in the water polo team. They both belong to the Concert Party. They have a passing acquaintance with twenty families of their own age, but they are the firm friends of one young couple who are shortly going to have a second baby.
