"What if he doesn't and there is something else going on," she suggested. "I have noticed very much so that my father and mother are shining examples of how not to be married. My father treats mother horribly and she does it right back to him. Some of the things I have heard them scream at one another, especially when in regards to me. 'Are you going to tell her the truth or shall I?'"

Pearl sighed and then looked at Rose, "Perhaps you both ought to talk to each other and start anew. Perhaps things got off on the wrong foot and honesty is best."