For one thing, Guan did not like the parties.

My father had known exactly why my mother didn't like the parties, even though he pretended he didn't.

This was exactly what my father had said when I asked him why my mother didn't like the parties.

Do you suppose I shouldn't like the parties and all the larks afterwards and the jolly actresses and the rest?

"She liked the parties, liquor, men," Madison said, "and broke up many a marriage." Robert couldn't protect her from her Billie Holiday of a life.