THANKS TO HER SUPPORT-
Nathaniel Hawthorne went home to tell his wife that he was a failure and had been fired from his job in a customs house. She surprised him with an exclamation of joy.
"Now," she said triumphantly, "you can write your book."
"Yes, replied Nathaniel, "and what shall we live on while I'm writing it!"
To his amazement, she openned a drawer and pulled out a substantial amount of money. "Where on earth did you get that?" he exclaimed.
"I've always known you were a man of genius," she told him. "I knew that someday you would write a masterpiece. So, every week out of the housekeeping money, I saved a little. So, here is enough to last us for a whole year!"
From her support, confidence and encouragement came one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Scarlet Letter.
(printed in Catholic Digest)