"Isn't it just. Makes it easy to be roommates in a place like this. Although it's a lot to keep clean. I wonder if we can hire a maid?"

Joan's frown at the pictures on the walls calls Norton's attention to them and he takes one off its nail as he's talking and his thoughts about hiring a maid drift off.

"They must have prepared these in advance. Composites from different photographic negatives spliced together, perhaps. I'm told it's tricky work, and not a fast process. Why go through all that effort for something no one but us is likely to see? It's not as if we're going to see a few pictures and become convinced we're actually married and just temporarily forgot."