“I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.”
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Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
