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i 8 4JA M E S [ 1904-1905 ]generously lent him sixty francs to continue his journey, and invited himto return later to meet the director of the largest bank in Zurich. 2 ButNora was lonely in the park, 'her boot was pinching her,'* and he hadto decline. During the day he managed to meet Curran and anotherformer classmate, James Murnaghan, who were visiting Paris, 3but heconcealed Nora from their quizzical eyes. That night he and Nora tooka train which brought them to Zurich on the morning of October 11.An eloquent hotel porter persuaded them to go to the Gasthaus Hoffnungat 16 Reitergasse. The name, which means hope, seemed a good augury,and became a better one in 1915 when they returned there and found ithad been changed to Gasthaus Dceblin. Here for the firsttime since theirelopement they were by themselves, and Joyce retained a special feelingfor the dingy hotel where he and Nora firstconsummated their love. 4Confident that their difficulties would soon be over, Joyce went roundlate in the morning to the Berlitz School to announce his arrival. Theteaching, he supposed, would be dull but easy, and would afford himtime to complete his book of ten stories and his sixty-three-chapter novel.Buoyed up by such thoughts, he called on Herr Malacrida, the directorof the school, and was shocked to hear that Malacrida did not know ofhis coming and had no vacancy for him to fill. 5Joyce's suspicions ofMiss Gilford returned; she had tricked him, he decided, in spite of hiscare in checking her credentials. He wrote her an angry letter, to whichshe replied by enclosing one that purported to come from the director ofthe Vienna Berlitz school, which was the European headquarters, promisinga position in Zurich. Joyce wrote to Vienna, where the directordenied all knowledge of the affair. It is impossible now to discover howMiss Gilford had been deceived, but Joyce's situation, so full of hope onOctober 11, was suddenly desperate.In this emergency Malacrida was sympathetic and obliging. He offeredto try to find Joyce a position in another Berlitz school in Switzerland orItaly. During the anxious week that followed, Joyce was capable of detachinghimself sufficiently to write the eleventh chapter of Stephen Heroabout his days at Belvedere. 6Then at last Malacrida got wind of a vacancyin Trieste, so off went Joyce and Nora with their suitcase, theirtrunk stored temporarily with a friend they had somehow made in Zurich.They arrived in Trieste on October 20, 7and Joyce needed only anhour or two to cap his honeymoon by putting himself in jail. He fell intocasual talk in the handsome Piazza Grande with three drunken Englishsailors, and when a policeman arrested the sailors for drunken behavior,he tried to intercede in their behalf. The policeman listened to his expostulationsand then cagily suggested that Joyce accompany them to thepolice station and interpret for them. Once there, Joyce was clapped in"Joyce's euphemism for menstruation.