They were still newlyweds when the relationship began to sour, she said, marred by his sudden absences and verbal abuse.
"Oh, I'm not really marred," she tells them after a bad date.
Once after a concert at the Presbyterian church where Nannie performed, the event was marred, she noted, by "some young ladies up in the gallery [who] carried on shamefully with the Yankees".
And, always, a long strand of pearls, which she looped around her back so she wouldn't mar her tan (and, she said, because the sun was good for them).
In July 1923 she won the junior Alice Lupton piano prize, but her chances of distinction as a pianist were marred when she began to develop phlebitis in her left arm.
Initially, cleaning the drawing room was prescribed as therapy while recovering from a breakdown ('It's really rather fun and makes a wonderful difference'), while her cookery classes were marred when she baked her wedding ring into a suet pudding.
Valerie Trierweiler, whose debut in the role of presidential partner was marred when she took a political swipe at the woman who had four children with Hollande, said in an interview she regretted that faux-pas and was still finding her way.
If the ballerina excuses her fall in the middle of the dance by saying that she intended it, the dance is just as marred aesthetically as if she had fallen accidentally.
In 2004, she was returned to office in an election marred by accusations of fraud, which she denied.
