His fear came back in the car as he was on the M4, but when he let himself into the house - the home of his second, less idyllic marriage - he found that all was well.
The delicacy of the music, its noble innocence, the fusion of reality and fantasy in story line -these have made for an idyllic marriage with the Aichers' tiny cast.
Instead she affected perfection: the happy family, the idyllic marriage, the flawless clothes.
She begins tutoring the children of Setsu Koizumi, whose stories of her idyllic marriage with the late Lafcadio Hearn starkly contrast with her own.
Much time is spent depicting his courtship and idyllic marriage to his first wife, Urilla (Annabeth Gish).
If Maggie were to be believed it was the most idyllic marriage on the face of the earth.
"She had a lot of power, but it wasn't an idyllic marriage," said Bernard Diederich, author of a biography of Francois Duvalier.
Taylor, who had been cast as the grieving widow, now found herself in the role of the vamp who wrecked the Fishers' apparently idyllic marriage.
His wife is prepared, at last, for passionate loyalty, for the idyllic interracial marriage, even domestic bliss, when Whaila is murdered.
The chance discovery of her husband's seven-year affair with a man, Michele (Stefano Accorsi), shatters her illusory image of an idyllic marriage.