Adjusting
Jehan spends the first week lying awake, listening to the repeater tapping tread of his landlady upstairs. She paces, and Jehan cannot sleep. He misses the silence of his home.
But he likes his studies, and in the second week he meets a girl. She laughs and calls him spendthrift when he buys her a loop of tiny metal bells to chime starlight around her wrist. He loves her madly for three weeks.
Then, for a while, the only woman he speaks to is his landlady, who talks to air. There come other girls, and he learns to sleep again.