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But the headwaitress and head maid, Ronda Ray, had a day-room on the second floor — to gather herself together, she’d said to Father.

It is hard to say what she smelled like, although — after we left Ronda — Franny tried.

I thought of Ronda Ray’s stockings, which she hung in the closet of her dayroom.

And on a very rainy morning, Ronda Ray stopped me on the second-floor landing.

Off the fire escape, at her end of the second floor, a pale green nightgown waved in the grey air: Ronda Ray must have been sleeping in the blue one this morning, or in the black one — or in the shocking-orange one.

It was the floor above Ronda Ray, and at the opposite end of the hall from her.

I pondered running a few laps, up and down the stairs — not necessarily for old times’ sake, but think­ing that this might be the most familiar way to wake Ronda up.

That prompted me to show her the nightgown I bought for Ronda Ray, and Franny promptly modelled it.

Naked, I was no longer as ‘chubby’ as I looked with my running clothes on — as Ronda Ray was always telling me.

And one rainy morn­ing, from Ronda Ray’s room, I was startled to see the soggy tail and rump of Sorrow protruding from the mouth of the barrel.

Our family’s rooms didn’t overlook the delivery entrance, and Egg knew that left only Ronda Ray who could see him.

I was hardly being unfaithful to Ronda — there was no one to be unfaithful with — but I dreamed of an imaginary someone else, about Franny’s age, all the time.

Having seen Franny model it, I was anxious about how Ronda would ever cram herself into it.

Doris wore what­ever she wanted to — dresses that even Ronda Ray would have thought immodest.

There was a strange blowing sound, like the rushing of air, from 4A — at the opposite end of the hall from Max Urick’s static — but Franny said there was prob­ably a window open: Ronda Ray had made up that bed for Bitty Tuck, and the room had probably been stuffy.