Portrait: E.B. White "sufficient to themselves"
"Life inside the house was busy from the very early morning hour when Andy got up, till evening, when he closed the chicken house against predators. During the day he and Katharine usually went their own ways and did their own work until late afternoon, when, the housekeeper having left, the cook having prepared dinner, and serving girl having arrived to serve it, the two of them had cocktails before sitting down to dinner. After dinner Andy sometimes worked on newsbreaks for The New Yorker, the 'salaried' job he had now held for more than thirty years.
Over the years the Whites had acquired many friends in Maine. But they were, now as before, sufficient to themselves, and led only a moderately active social life, except in July and August, when their children and grandchildren, as well as other guests, came to visit."
Scott Elledge
E.B. White: A Biography
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