larry belmont worked for a company that made robots.recently it had begun experimenting with a household robot.it was going to be tested out by larry’s wife,claire.
claire didn’t want the robot in her house,especially as her husband would be absent for three weeks,but larry persuade her or allow her to be harmed.it would be a bonus.however,when she first saw the robot,she felt alarmed.his name was tony and he seemed more like a human than a machine.he was tall and handsome with smooth hair and a deep voice although his facial expression never changed.
on the second morning tony,wearing an apron,brought her breakfast and then asked her whether she needed help dressing.she felt embarrassed and quickly told him to go.it was disturbing and frightening that he looked so human.
one day,claire mentioned that she didn’t think she was clever.tony said that she must feel very unhappy to say that.claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot.but she began to trust him.she told him how she was overweight and this made her feel unhappy.also she felt her home wasn’t elegant enough for someone like larry who wanted to improve his social position.she wasn’t like gladys claffern,one of the richest and most powerful women around.
as a favor tony promised to help claire make herself smarter and her home more elegant.so claise borrowed a pile of books from the library for him to read,or rather,scan.she looked at his fingers with wonder as they turned each page and suddenly reached for his hand.she was amazed by his fingernails and the softness and warmth of his skin.how absurd,she thought.he was just a machine.
tony gave claire a new haircut and changed the makeup she wore.as he was not allowed to accompany her to the shops,he wrote out a list of items for her.claire went into the city and bought curtains,cushions,a carpet and bedding.then she went into a jeweler shop to buy a necklace.when the clerk at the counter was rude to