ABSTRACT

Seymour Levin, you recall, slept with a student but nevertheless refused to change her exam grade. There had never been a deal. Even so, Nadalee charged him with having it both ways: the sexual rewards of immorality for one who, when it suited him, then wanted to go back to being moral again. One risk was enough for Levin, he wanted to stop all further cheating. But now, precisely as a consequence of his refusal and of his desire to stop, he risked her going on to tell her father all about the affair if he wouldn't change her grade. Yet he wouldn't change the grade— even to help someone to whom, unprofessionally, besottedly, he had made love. Professional ethics returned only belatedly, the second time round, after he'd had her and was disappointed with her, with himself, with the whole wretched affair.