"We're really no unhappier than we were when we were young." "We're more serious." "Well, I hate it; and I wish you wouldn't be so serious, if that's what it brings us to." "I will be trivial from this on," said March.

"Shall we go to the Hole in the Ground to-night ?" "I am going to Boston." "It's much the same thing.

How do you like that for triviality?
It's a little blasphemous, I'll allow." "It's very silly," she said.
At the hotel they found a letter from the agent who had sent them the permit to see Mrs.Grosvenor Green's apartment.

He wrote that she had heard they were pleased with her apartment, and that she thought she could make the terms to suit.

She had taken her passage for Europe, and was very anxious to let the flat before she sailed.