 If Raymond had only sold multimixers for the rest of his life, Ethel's confidence in him might have increased. Their marriage might have been spared if he'd only gone on selling multimixers. But Raymond was, as I say, an American dreamer. He was a man sold on the naive concept that if you work a little harder and a little longer than the next guy, and if you take enough risks in the right direction, one day, one day he was sure he would be sitting on top of the world.