Sara Murphy did what she could to help Hadley. She directed her chauffeur to deliver groceries, including fresh vegetables from her garden, to Hadley every day. She paid Bumby’s doctor bills. But her generosity hid a slight coldness. Sara knew about Ernest’s affair with Pauline and was sympathetic to Hadley as the wronged wife, but she preferred Pauline’s company to Hadley’s. Even as a child, Jack Hemingway recognized something of this and said he never felt comfortable around Sara, because “I sensed that she thought my mother was from a lower class of people.
Sara Murphy
