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Dorothy became friendly with Bill White, a motor mechanic who came from a middle class family but was finding it hard to find steady work. He had been visiting friends who lived in the same building as Dorothy. She brought him home to meet her parents, and he stayed at her house for Christmas. But it does not seem as if the affair was very serious on her part. She was rather lonely and upset by the end of her relationship with Cournous. He had aroused her sexually yet frustrated her, and his behaviour had done a lot of damage to her self esteem. She liked Bill, who was good natured, and unpretentious. He enjoyed the cinema. He taught her about bikes and cars and she was happy to take him to dances at Bensons. However, having been involved sexually with Cornous, it was probably inevitable that her relationship with Bill would quickly become sexual.. in spite of her religious scruples. She rushed into what she saw as a light relationship which would cheer her up after Cournos' condescending behaviour and desertion. Within a few months, she accidentally became pregnant, in spite of using precautions. She then found that Bill was a married man, who was in an on and off relationship with his wife. He was not well off at all, having been mostly out of work for some time. He was not free to marry her. She realised that for a third time she had made a bad mistake in getting involved with a man.