Deposition of Howard Franklin Temple
taken at the Sheriff’s office in
St. Augustine, January 28, 1892.
I was starting to get used to it, a little, accepting it as a phase she was in, just something she was going through. But then she up and said all she really wanted to do was go to Spain and that she intended to do so at the first opportunity. That’s when she started going to the library and reading books about Spain, read everything the library had abut Spain. It got to where she and I had a hard time talking. Was almost like she had already left for Spain.
The first time she said it out loud in front of someone else was at dinner, at her parents’ a week ago. The Reverend asked me if I ever thought much about getting married. Asked me that right there in front of Julie Ann. She and me been spending a lot of time together for nearly a year. I didn’t answer him directly, but said I had asked for a raise, maybe was even in line for a promotion to groundskeeper. That’s when Julie Ann broke in saying she would never get married until she had been to Europe and that she though people shouldn’t go to Europe unless they planned on spending at least a year traveling all over. And she said it looking right at me. Made me feel small.