In the little hotel off Oakley Street, they made love twice that night.

But already in Oakley Street he was beginning to discover.

"You can get anything you want on Oakley Street," the bartender told him.

On reaching the house in Oakley Street she got out and rang the bell.

"Did you hear the news at Oakley Street?"

They moved on in silence; at the corner of Oakley Street she stopped.

Dinny kissed him again, and soon after in a cab set forth with her things to Oakley Street.

She stood a moment watching him, tall and rather stooping, walk away, then turned down Oakley Street, and let herself in.

It was nearly eight o'clock when she dropped Dinny at Oakley Street.

Back in Oakley Street, they went upstairs to pack.