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I considered them gay, perhaps, but not worthy of rebuke — so I took Bennett on a hat-shopping expedition. "You," I told him firmly, "may now pick me out exactly the sort of hat you would like me to have." And I waited. He poked about the shop, and after a little he came back wearing somewhat the same expression that Lassie does when she's dug up a really old and toothsome bone. "Here," he said. I was afraid to take the thing into my hands, fearing it might explode. I still remember every detail — how could I forget? Chartreuse voile, it was, piled abandonedly on bright pink straw. I gave him a look. Every wife will know what kind of look I mean. The matter of hats has not arisen between us since . . . But, even so, that wasn't an argument. We've never had one, in all these eight years, and I doubt that we ever will. In the first place, how can you argue with a man who won't argue back? Who simply closes his mouth and his ears and takes his astral body elsewhere, leaving the temporal behind like a shell? But that's not the real reason that we don't argue. I don't want to. What reason could there be to argue with a man so charming, so pleasant, so genuinely good — to me, to my son John, to everyone? SOON after we were married, Bennett legally adopted John, gave him his name. When my son first went away to school and was homesick, I asked him if it was I he missed. Or his friends? The familiar neighborhood? He shook his head. "No," he said. "Not so much as Dad." What better reference could you ask for a father? There was just one drawback to our Vermont home — but in the end, it was decisive. The train time between it and New York is five hours. True, Bennett only went in once a week, spent the night at a hotel, and returned home by sleeper after the program Thursday night. But he was doing too much, I felt, from too far away. So — not without considerable searching of our hearts, not without a terribly wrenching pain of parting — we put our farm up for sale. "Then we bought our present home in Ridgefield, and began all over again. All the papering, painting, repairing . . . The Ridgefield house is not of the vintage of the farm in Vermont, being a mere eighteen years old. But it looks pleasantly older, being made of white clapboard with green trim. Set quite far back from the road, you come to it through a wooden gate in an old stone wall. There is a pond with big trees, old trees, behind it. And, in miniature — since there are only four and a half acres — the fields and woodlands Bennett loves so much. Even if my husband were not an actor — and how unthinkable that is! — he would not, I'm sure, turn to tracing lost persons for his livelihood. An outdoor man if ever there was one, he says, "When — if ever — I retire, I may live in Tahiti and raise rare orchids." 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