"My very best investment": That's an easy question - my answer is 32s 6d, spent on a special marriage licence nineteen years ago. For those few shillings I got a pretty girl who became housekeeper, nurse, mother, mistress, companion, secretary, adviser, dresser and washer-woman. And the important thing about this investment was that I never actually spent the 32s 6d - because I was working all hours at the time, my future wife had to get the licence herself!. UK Woman Magazine April 25 1970.