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83/ [[note in left margin in red]] Ripper [[/note in left margin in red]] at a fine salary to watch my personal affairs, but he is so slow, and [[underlined in red]] clumsy [[/underlined in red]] and so inclined to be [[underlined in red]] meddlesome and stubborn. - [[/underlined in red]] Well, I am against an immediate divorce Let them live apart for awhile at least. Nina wants to see me, says Celine. - Am too busy now, so will see her Saturday afternoon. Took [[underlined in red]] Ripper [[/underlined in red]] for luncheon at University Club. [[underlined]] Sept 22. [[underlined]] [[note in left margin in red]] Bound Brook [[/note in left margin in red]] All morning at office and long talk with George Baekeland. Then [[strikethrough]] took [[/strikethrough]] Dick drove Ripper, his wife and myself to [[underlined in red]] Bound Brook [[/underlined in red]] arriving there at 2:15 P.M. Hurried visit around the whole plant and office and back to New York at their hotel at 6 P.M. I went for supper to University Club. [[underlined]] Sept. 23. [[/underlined]] All morning at office with Ripper, questioning and discussing his product and his patents in a friendly but thorough manner, till 2 P.M. then after swallowing an avocado for luncheon arrived home at 3 P.M [[strikethrough]] Just [[/strikethrough]] very very tired. [[note in left margin in red]] Nina [[/note in left margin in red]] But laid down an hour to rest to meet [[underlined in red]] Nina [[/underlined in red]] at 4:30 P.M. Nina told me her troubles while crying; all this in presence of Celine. I told her she was as much to blame as her husband. That during the first years of her marriage [[end page]] [[start page]] 84/ when she was in love with him, and [[underlined in red]] cooing and kissing [[/underlined in red]] they both behaved [[underlined in red]] like country yokels, [[/underlined in red]] and it was always "dear" George here" and "dear George there" entitled to special favors and read her some notes in my journal which I [[strikethrough]] bir [[/strikethrough]] penned down during these years. Told her that divorcing for people who had no children was an easy thing. - But [[underlined in red]] when one had children one contracted new duties towards them, [[/underlined in red]] and no longer the freedom of childless marriages etc etc. - Told her [[underlined in red]] I would not encourage her in obtaining [[strikethrough]] forth [[/strikethrough]] an immediate divorce. [[/underlined in red]] That there was no such hurry, specially when she was all upset and it needed a more sober mind. - Furthermore that with this divorce there was every probability that this was not the end. That I [[underlined in red]] did not relish the thought of having to start the whole unsuccessful experiment over again [[/underlined in red]] with an unknown new son-in-law. That one never finds out about a man or a woman with whom one falls in love, [[underlined in red]] how they will look and behave afterwards [[/underlined in red]] etc etc. - I feel thoroughly disgusted with all this - when I have so many things which require my full concentration. Anyhow I have told Hays to do nothing further and let the matter rest George Roll also wants to see me and he shall have to wait
