I've seen beautiful and delicate women fall under some mysterious spell, and yoke their lives with rank degenerates.
Whatever he was, they have paid the price.

Maybe the wife deserved it, and bore it in silence because she knew she did, but it's bitter hard on Ruth.

Girls should be taught to think at least one generation ahead when they marry.

I wonder what Doc will say, Betsy?
He will have to come and see for himself.

I don't know how she will feel about that.