mrs. gurney , who had borne her truck-dispatcher husband four children between 1950 and 1957 , and now the children were grown and they were disgusted with her , and her husband was disgusted with her , and he was seeing another woman , and she could understand that because stan gurney was still a good-looking , vital , virile man at fiftyfive , and she had slowly gained one hundred and sixty pounds over the years since the second-to-last child had left for college , going from the one-forty she had weighed at marriage to an even three hundred pounds .