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It wasn't pleasant to be split off from the family. He relied very much upon the fact that I would come out and see him every single Saturday and that it never failed. I always went and I stayed the whole afternoon. In the periods when he was better I would have walks with him. We would play games together, and such things. When he was well enough to be on what they call the “better halls” - the halls where the people are better - he would introduce me to the other people there.

My husband suffered from an up and down illness all the way through. It was always up and down. He was sometimes depressed, sometimes excited.

So I promised my husband faithfully that we'd maintain a place in New York and that he would have that as a home. I would come every week to see him. I would naturally look out for everything.

Recently (1953) I was making out a widow's claim on his Equitable Life Assurance Society policy. They asked his occupation - retired. They asked what was the last day of his employment. I discovered, in checking back, that the last day on which he did any work for which he was paid was early 1929. He was able to work during the twenties. He had a post with the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Whether he did anything that would be called competent or not, at