Since there were no pressing appointments the next morning she had a leisurely breakfast and took her time in dressing and applying her make up. It was a great relief not to be bothered with shaving. She wondered how the new Hank liked the heavy, rather tough beard that greeted him every morning when he looked in the mirror. Lydia thought he would prefer his original school girl complexion! He would play hell in getting it back, she said to herself, as she had no idea of giving it up, not yet, at any rate.

The manager of the business school called and told her she had been accepted as a student, and for her to be at the school at nine o'clock sharp the next morning if she wanted to take the course. By the tone of the manager's voice, and her dictatorial manner. Lydia thought it would be in her best interest to be there promptly.

Then like a true woman she began to wonder what she would wear. She decided the blue tailored suit with a white blouse, and black patent leather pumps would do for the first day. She spent the rest of the day in selecting what she would wear during the week, trying on each selection and getting used to the feel of it. Every time she looked at herself in the mirror she had an immense feeling of pride at her appearance.

What was amazing to her was the exalted feeling of really being a woman. Hank had always been satisfied with his sex, and although he liked to dress as a woman in the privacy of his own room or apartment, he had never had any thoughts of being operated on and changing his

sex.

Now that he had become a woman, without any desire or encourage- ment on his part he was very much bewildered at how much he enjoyed being one. He wondered if Lydia would develop into the kind, thought- ful, gracious lady that had been his ideal for a wife. His marriage ex- perience had shown him the kind of woman he did not want Lydia to be.

The next morning Lydia dressed carefully in her blue tailored suit. The suit fitted perfectly and she looked as though she had been poured into it. She hoped the other girls at the school would not envy her expensive looking clothes too much. She was very prompt in reporting to the school, and the severe looking "school marm" gave her a pleas- ant welcome, and hoped she would enjoy her work there. Her first as-

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