Her ex-husband had immediately remarried his mistress and the woman had reluctantly decided to let her ex-husband raise her four-year-old son. Her ex-husband still had his job and the substantial income it provided. Her ex-husband’s new wife had a well paying job of her own and her contribution raised the income of their new family to upper middle class levels. The tiny efficiency where the divorced woman lived had no room for the detrius of her former life; she gladly gave all the baby furnishings she had to Becky to raise money for the woman’s group. She knew that they would sell quickly in a garage sale and would take the place of the membership dues that she had been allowed to forgo due to her dire financial straits.