[ In all honesty, it's the kind of question that applies to more than just storybooks, a fact that only takes on a sort of dramatic irony as Mr. Marling closes the book from which he'd been reading. Nobody knows what Mr. Marling does when his daughter is at school and nobody knows how Mr. Marling makes his living, period. They just know that it's enough to keep him and his daughter (who knows what happened to his wife) in one of the nicer houses in the neighborhood, well-fed and well cared for. But beyond that, there really isn't much anybody knows about the Marlings. ]
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[ In all honesty, it's the kind of question that applies to more than just storybooks, a fact that only takes on a sort of dramatic irony as Mr. Marling closes the book from which he'd been reading. Nobody knows what Mr. Marling does when his daughter is at school and nobody knows how Mr. Marling makes his living, period. They just know that it's enough to keep him and his daughter (who knows what happened to his wife) in one of the nicer houses in the neighborhood, well-fed and well cared for. But beyond that, there really isn't much anybody knows about the Marlings. ]
'S just a story, sweet.