“I’ve learned an awful lot.”
Marty broke in: “That’s pretty ambiguous.”
“Let me put it this way. We’re both striving to be real good people. Marriage has made a terrific change in Marty.”
“In what way?” I said.
“We’re very serious about our religion, but we can’t discuss that.”
“Why not? I think it should be discussed. Do you go to church every Sunday?”
“No, we’re not churchgoers. But we’re trying to be good people, and we’ve come a long way. It’s helped me to be less impatient. I used to be so impatient. Now I’m not.”
“Our religion,” Marty explained in words of one syllable, “is being good. Take out one ‘o’ and you’ve got God. To do good is to prove God.”
Doris hastened to explain: “For instance, we don’t gossip. We don’t talk about people. We don’t stand in judgment of others. We have only enough time to mind our own business.”
Minding their own business has made Mr. and Mrs. Melcher into a ten-million-dollar corporation. They hold interests in a motion-picture production company, recording companies, music companies, real estate, and a merchandising firm with plans to cash in on Doris’ new-found reputation as a clothes horse by peddling “Doris Day” dresses and make-up.