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broken to Al by newspaper people.

It was a terrible, terrible blow. It was disconcerting and confusing from every point of view. In the first place, nobody knew who the girl was. She was an utter unknown person. The original news that came through on her was that she was no better than she ought to be.

I remember that Al, gripping himself, thought first of the fact that this boy was his son. That was the first thing he thought of. He didn't think of being disgraced himself. As a matter of fact, you couldn't have disgraced Al. He was so much of a developed personality that he couldn't have been disgraced. He knew the level where he stood and nothing that happened to anybody attached to him would have disgraced him. He wouldn't have felt it. He felt grief, distress, confusion about his son who had done something that was irregular, unconventional, not the way he'd been brought up, and particularly that he had gone and been married by a justice of the peace when he was a well brought up Catholic boy. He knew it was no marriage in the eyes of the church. That was the first thing that hit him.

The second thing that hit him was that he didn't think his boy was fit to marry anybody. He wasn't developed. He wasn't grown up. He didn't have a job. His second thought was for the girl who had married him under what he thought