 After that time, Carter returned and initiated his courtship of Lillian.Lillian reflected that the couple had to adjust to their different interests, the two having differing political views and reading interests.Carter's reading habits consisted of daily and weekly newspapers, farm journals, Richard Halliburton's "The Royal Road to Romance", Arthur Conan Doyle stories of Sherlock Holmes, and the complete set of Tarzan tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs.