He laughed in reply while his mother remarked, “He should certainly be holier than thou, because he is now under the influence of a good woman.” It was difficult to know how to take these remarks – it was not easy to make light of them, because they smacked of conspiracy and seemed targeted at an essential element, my faith, on which I would depend implicitly in the task before me.
— Travelling to Infinity (Jane Hawking), Loc. 780–3