Gladys, the narrator, and her husband Ray are maid and groundsman for a retired doctor in an upscale neighborhood on the north shore of Long Island. They lose their position when the doctor and his wife move to a retirement home. Similar jobs are few in 1953. The only advertisement Gladys, finds is for a couple to be caretakers for a mansion/estate farther out on the north shore built by a robber baron in the 1890s. Sold to a mafia-related bootlegger...