On a \-(?hot summer afternoo`*n ^%in New Yor$k,)_ ] Emma`? Jones gossips with other nei .=ghbors in her resi\%dent=%+ial / b=_uildin g about the affair that Mrs.]#;/ Anna Maurr ?a].n##t and the milkman S`-teve Sankey @a\,re having. When the ru\de and
?( un]f[/riendly( Mr`]?. Frank M!aurrant#% arrives, ,]!t)
hey. ^change  the subjec$,t. Meanwhile, the/:ir te$;-enage .:da (ught^#er Ros/ (e M)`a
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\nt is )!being sexuall.=y ^=press$?!ured by)$\` her mar=#:(ried boss Mr. B.er$t :+]Easte/r.]( She do*)?e (s ho (wever very m#_*!uch li:ke h*:er kin**d young J=#`ew;#%ish ne/ighbor Sam, who has /
+,a /:serious crush\ on,* her.　　The next morn:ing., ,Frank Mau rr$[(ant +@tel*!ls his wife that he is; travel+ing to St/$$amford on business. Mrs-. Maurrant 
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gentle Sankey in `)her +?apartment, but - ^out of the b \=lue Frank comes back home. +He realizes  h[is wife is upstairs with Sa,(nkey, and runs upst%airs.-@;` We he]@ar sh*, ots +
and !/see`` the _= \\two *men str$`)uggling as Sankey tri/*e*s to escape th?%`,rough th*`+e win$dow.!` Maurrant runs out wit^h,] a#_\ gun. \He ;has killed S[\ank^
ey and fa@ ==t%(/ally woun()ded his wife.　　M/(aurrant is: app%rehended and i*s led a^(;,wa?y by poli/ce. He a%pologi@z])es to his /daughte`]$r Rose,# who will now \h-]av$+:)e to take? care of )_+herself an+d h)-e*]*$r youn)g bro+\[)ther/^%: w\
ithout either parent.)` Rose's b*oss o$=$ f\_:fers once again to@? /s=et #her up in h`)er own %
)a+((par.$tment, ;(but s(
he refuses. Then sh-e sees Sa=m, a=nd t%ells=/ him sh=
e want;!^s to `]lea%ve the ;city. ?-Sam= pleads with+/ )]#her to let?;%; him` #go^( wi.`/th h:?e^$r; =, but she `tells him it w%[ill be ?be[tter for t;he  \two +of them; to /have a +!%couple of years apa#@rt before th(\,ey c! ons.ider/\ beco#]*mi=^?ng a ;-couple. Rose:;[] walks ^*/off down t%+he st-= reet by he_(;rse/!l\f.