bank was a success from the start. All the employees were women, and women of all kinds used it Soon Grand Aunt built a large new building for the bank, in one of the best parts of the city, and her employees lived in comfortable rooms upstairs. Grand Aunt lived in a big apartment on the top floor with her friend Miss Guang. They shared a room and slept in the same bed. People talked about relationships between single women, but without serious criticism. Grand Aunt and Miss Guang employed servants and entertained expensively. At the age of twenty-six, Grand Aunt's brother, my Ye Ye, entered into an arranged marriage. My fifteen-year-old grandmother came from a very similar Shanghai family. Across the road from Ye Ye's father's tea shop, her father owned a shop which sold many kinds of strange medicines Ye Ye and Grandmother saw each other for the first time on their weddin day in 1903. On the day before her wedding, Grandmother was called to see her father. "Tomorrow you will belong to the Yen family, she was rold. "From that moment, this is not your home. You must not contact us without permission from your husband. Your duty is to please him and his family'