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Prior to the discovery that Graylick Dramblegumper is by far the worst human being that has ever existed in the world, he fell in love with a lovely person named Alice and convinced her to marry him. They behaved as married couples do, and soon after they were married were expecting a child. Fortunately, Mrs. Alice Dramblegumper was not a person who enjoyed reading books and did not make an exception to read her new husband's book. She instead carried on about her business preparing for a child to come, a thing in her life which she wanted very badly.

Unlike her husband, Mrs. Dramblegumper had an inside which normally matched her outside. She was a very caring and loving person with a radiant personality, a charming wit (of limited vocabulary, but charming none the less!), and was also quite beautiful; stunning actually. Her only real flaw was her lack of formal education, everything else she could either fake or cleverly muddle through.

There is a saying about clever people often not being clever enough to know when to be clever and when to keep quiet about it but this does not apply to Alice, her husband thought of her as she wanted him to think and so he assumed that she would be very useless and incomplete without him. In fact, with the skillful use of her already mentioned assets and some skills which you may rightly infer, Alice had always made due in the world quite nicely. Thus, when she happened to glance at an open copy of her husband's book which was sitting on a table and became so devastatingly ill from no more than one half sentences that she knew she must leave and never return, Alice knew she would be fine; and so she left.

Pregnant and penniless she set off into the wide world and away from Graylick Dramblegumper who was too busy removing the last, deadly flecks of his character from his book to notice she had even left. In fairness, the house was very large, and he was very busy, and he really did think that he loved her very much at the time, and he really did miss her at first; when he found out she was gone, of course, which was several days after the fact.