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My new role as a wife altered my life more radically than I could have possibly imagined. In New York, I had been blissfully busy; now, had I so desired, I could have been the idlest of the idle rich. Only a few months before, I had been teaching by day and weaving far into the night; now I was obliged to scratch around, looking for things to do. A gnawing sense of emptiness and discontent, simply for want of activities to occupy and interest me, gradually made itself felt.

From the country club in Washington, an unlikely place for the start of a honeymoon, we sailed on a Canadian cruise ship for the West Indies. It stopped in Puerto Rico. We disembarked and went to a banana plantation operated