This idea is that we’re Nordics.

The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be⁠—will be utterly submerged.

The practical thing was to find rooms in the city, but it was a warm season, and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town, it sounded like a great idea.