marianne holmes is the woman, the -- this poor woman, the mistrishgs the pregnant mistrishgs remember who came with junius from london to the united states. the mother of the ten booth children. her livelihood depended on edwin booth. not only her livelihood, but the rest of her children, her daughters, her younger sons, the sons that were younger than john wilkes. and so when edwin and the father go to california on this mission to the gold fields, where they hope that they'll act for the minor 49ers and become very wealthy and junius dies on that trip, edwin stays in california for five years. that leaves marianne holmes, the mother, and all the children, including john, on the maryland farm with no money. for five years. they had no income. they had no wage earner to support them, and the hardships they experienced, if you read the journals of this family from the time, they were close to going hungry at certain periods. so when edwin returns a star in the late 1850s, a wage earner, the person who's going revive the booth family fortunes, that gives him tremendous power in this fam