In The Spiritual Life (Harper, n.d.) she pleaded: «We can not begin the day by a real act of communion with the Author of peace and
Lover of concord, and then
go on to read a bloodthirsty newspaper at
breakfast.»
Dashing and handsome when he
goes out on the town and given to massive appetites — he meets Alma when she serves him a hilariously heavy
breakfast while working in a restaurant in the countryside — Reynolds is a Bluebeard whose manor is home not to the corpses of ex-wives but to a wealth of dresses, each measured to the contours of live - in
lovers long since discarded as easily as their formal wear.