I was rather reclusive as a child, didn't have many... many friends at school. I played the games with them and so on, but gradually... I... I began to spend a lot of time at home reading, and away from others. I didn't really feel at home with my own age group, my own generation until I went to college, and then I did with a... with a vengeance, and it was lovely.  But all the time there was the tension between the New Hampshire part of my family and the Connecticut part. The suburbs were sophisticated. They drank cocktails. This was teetotal up here, totally. And they had bridge clubs. Cards were forbidden up here. In this house and in this neighborhood by and large people did not dance, play cards, swear, smoke or drink. And she went down there and she tried to adapt, and she adapted fairly well. She played cards, she drank, she smoked cigarettes. She died at 90 of congestive heart, probably because of her cigarette habit. Her mother, Kate, who had never smoked, lived to be 97, always in this house until the last couple of years. But when we drove up when I was a little kid, I used to be told in the car remember not to speak about Bridge Club, not to say anything about drinking. My father would sneak off and smoke and they knew he smoked, but there was a... a secrecy and I knew that, but my grandparents here... I called the society puritan but they were wonderful people and I just adored them.