Richard Fidler

So she gets her uncle to write a letter to the local Anglican clergyman saying, would you mind keeping an eye on Dory?

So he goes to the train to meet her and out steps this beautiful 22-year-old in a lavender dress and he is just smitten.

Now, the interesting thing is that Dory is a very practical girl.

She's not a romantic.

She recognises him instantly.

As a schoolgirl, a face had appeared before her and it was his face and she knew instantly that that was the man she'd marry.

Look, it's blissful.

This is a marriage that's romantic from beginning to end.

They were so deeply in love and many people comment about it.

And within about a year, they have a son, Bill, and everything's looking wonderful.

Yeah, but how was Walter at managing his money?

Walter actually commented in his memoirs that sailors are hopeless with money because they never got to handle money on a day-to-day basis.

They got paid at the end of their voyage, so they had these huge funds which they would go through rapidly and then be indigent until they got another ship.

And Dexter never learnt otherwise, even though he recognised the problems.

One of the great ironies of his life, he's an intelligent man and yet he's completely hopeless at managing money and basically from the time he quits being a sailor, he's in debt for the rest of his life.

Yeah, look, definitely the quiet life was a worry.

But there was a very strong sense of duty in those days.

And duty was a very positive word.

We kind of have a negative connotation on duty.

But duty was what a man did.