 One day at the bottom of the heap, indebted and despondent, and there you are beside him. It was a whale of an argument that Ethel and Raymond had that last night, followed by a crushing silence that never lifted. The door between them was closed. It would never open again. For a little while longer, they went through the motions, but then were divorced. The smartest thing she ever did, Ethel's friends said. And it was just that last one deal that did it.