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28 year old graduate student Robert Edwards opens the door to his laboratory and politely gestures for his companion to enter.

After spending the evening in a bar with Robert, fellow student Ruth Fowler is eager to see the

research project he spent the last few hours talking about.

The two students tiptoe inside the dark room both a little tipsy.

Ruth stumbles into a table while Robert feels along the wall for the light switch.

Robert finds a switch and when the lights come on Ruth sees row upon row of cages lying in the

countertops and inside are hundreds of mice. This is what Robert Jobially

refers to as the Mouse House.

Robert is a scientist studying the reproduction of mice.

He has to inspect these rodents when they're most likely to breed,

and that's when the sun's down.

But even though Ruth is a student at the same university,

bringing an outsider into the lab is forbidden.

If they're caught, Robert could get in trouble.

So they try to keep quiet.

But Robert also wants to impress Ruth. He unlatches one of the cage doors and fumbles to extract a mouse for Ruth to hold. The creature

wriggles out of Robert's grip though and lands at their feet before

shooting across the floor. Soon the two students are scrambling all over the lab on

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