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"Don't get all worked up, now," Angie said. "I'm not letting him experiment on me, I'm helping him with his experiments. Don't worry, he's not going to hypnotize me, or anything like that."

"He tried it once."

Jim pulled the Gorp out of the college grounds onto West Street and turned down on the ramp leading to Highway Five.

"He only tried. You were the one who hypnotized me, if you'll rememberЧafter Grottwold taught you how."

"Anyway, you're not to let anyone hypnotize you again. Me or Hansen, or anybody."

"Of course," said Angie, softly.

There she went, doing it againЧjust what he had been thinking about, Jim told himself. Now he was the one she'd just handled. All of a sudden there was no more argument and he was wondering what he had gotten excited about in the first place. He was also feeling half guilty for making a fuss over something that probably had not been that important to begin with.

"Anyway," he said, heading out along Highway
Five toward the trailer court Danny Cerdak had told
him about, "if this trailer for rent turns out to be the
deal Danny said it was, we can get married and
maybe, living together, we can get by cheaply enough
so you won't have to work for Grottwold as well as
holding down your assistantship in English."

"Jim," said Angie, "you know better."

"We could."

"We could not. The only reason the co-op can get
by charging us a hundred twenty apiece per month for
food and board is that it makes slop food in quantity
and beds us all down in double-decker bunks in dor-
mitories. Any place we find for ourselves is going to

put our living costs up, not down. I can't manage meals
for us as cheaply as the co-op can. No, I can't quit
my work with Grottwold. But at least having a place
of our own will make it seem worth while to go on.
We've got to have a place of our ownЧbut let's not

fool ourselves about the expense."

"We could sort of camp out in the new place, the

first few months."

"How could we? To cook and eat, we've got to have

utensils, and a table to eat on. We need another table
so we can each have one to correct tests on and so
forth for our jobs at the college. And chairs. We need
at least a mattress to sleep on, and something like a