Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.
Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.
Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.
A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.