I inquired whether I might call the maid, and be conducted to a bedroom?

Each month, she pays $828 rent for their two-bedroom apartment, then decides whether the family has money left over for soap.

Moving to New York, they expected to stay briefly and rented a seventh-floor, one-bedroom apartment in the Chelsea, shifting to a bigger place upstairs when Malachy was born in 1999.

Simon Morris, commercial director of Compound Security Services, the firm that produces the device, describes the sound as akin to an alarm clock going off in an upstairs bedroom.

Much richer, more exciting relationships await men who embrace the fluidity and current evolution of male/female roles, in and out of the bedroom.