“People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.”
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I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.