Doris Lessing. The summer just before sunset (№ 359405)

Mrs. Michael brown, a housewife, bad never didn't dress, but Keith brown, an employee of the world food organization, presented an entirely different requirements. Before you go shopping, it is just in case asked Charlie Cooper, on what salary she can count on. He called the number, hearing that, Kate almost gasped. He said this without a trace of bravado - it was immediately clear that it is commonplace and workaday, as if in the world there are no trade unions, no fierce competition, no poverty, no hunger pangs and nothing can prevent to pay such big money of international officials, these favorites of fortune, without which humanity is simply unable to do.