Was robert horton gay

He tried to stop her from crawling into a shell. . . Even when, finally, he managed to find something wrong with her, like her backseat driving, it turned out it didn’t really matter. Out of a job, Bob stayed home and kept house while Barbara earned the money for the groceries.

“I think you’re beginning to take me for granted as a housekeeper,” Bob said one day, only half joking.

Barbara looked up from the dress she was ironing.

He had to admit, she got pretty good at it. and three months later the honeymoon was still on. She was still very pretty, but that tense, helpless look had gone.

Shortly after that. Or thought it.

She left the pursuing up to him—and so he pursued.

Bob began to feel the joys of bachelor life were really not so joyous after all.

But the part of him that was always suspicious of girls, that made him alert for their wiles and tricks, said, “Stay away from her. He counted up his freedoms and found there were lots he could do without: the freedom to dress up and drag a date to a noisy bash when you were tired and would rather watch TV .

He wasn’t giving up without a struggle.

Just in time

And then, just in time, he found something wrong with Marilynn.

She learned to drive a car. . Bob had to admit it. She’s trying to make me feel sympathetic.”

If it was an act on Marilynn’s part, it was a good act.

His voice cracked right in the middle of the three words. The night he came home with an invitation to a big Hollywood party, he acted like someone who’d finally grabbed the brass ring on a merry-goI round.

I “Get yourself a new dress,” he said, waving the invitation triumphantly at Mary. But out in the world where Bob felt he had to find his way, their marriage fell apart.

Instead, she took it up in the sky.