customed to wearing them, and at first she felt very nervous and em- barrassed on the street. She hailed a cab and when the cabbie seemed to accept her without any question she felt better.

She gained more confidence at the bank as everyone there accepted her, and she was treated with the respect and courtesy that every woman accepts naturally. She was assured by the bank manager that her money was genuine, and she deposited it in both a checking and savings account.

When she was through at the bank it was about time for her ap- pointment at the beauty parlor, and since it was on the same street as the bank, and quite nearby she decided to walk there. She could not help feeling an immense satisfaction in her appearance, and very pleased at the favorable attention she attracted as she walked along. She noticed that she attracted more attention in walking half-a-block than Hank ever had in walking a thousand.

The beauty parlor proved to be quite a fashionable and popular one. It was full of women coming and going, and some waiting. Lydia almost balked when she first entered, and was faced by all the, to her, unaccustomed femininity. She was a little early for her appointment, and so was asked to wait. She found a seat among the other waiting women, and while she was observing their actions and noticing their gestures and mannerisms, she suddenly realized that she was really one of them. She was not a man dressed as a woman, and impersonat- ing one, but due to some biological process that she did not pretend to understand she had actually been changed from the male to the fe- male sex. She was now a member of it in every way except in her mind, and even there she was accepting a feminine point of view much more rapidly than she had imagined possible.

While she was waiting a very nice looking, well dressed, woman came in, and as she too had to wait she sat in the empty chair next to Lydia. and immediately started a conversation with her.

"Have you ever been here before," she asked.

"No," I haven't, said Lydia thinking how true that was; she had never even been in any such a place before!

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