Living together

(1993 July, end)

There is a girl who has helped Ruth [Andrews] for years. She has a car, and they go shopping in that when several things are needed. Ruth asked me if I had ever heard of two people living together who were not married, and I said, "Yes, many times." She said so was the case with this girl. Actually very nice in spite of that, but she had never heard of it before. I thought to myself of one noon at lunch when Daddy was so exhausted he couldn't speak, but finally said he wished all couples did that. I was amazed and horrified, and he said he had so many divorces, most married a year only. And he would favor trial marriages.