For years he had been steadily modifying his matrimonial devotion, and found her company dull.

Now that a new light shone upon the horizon, this older luminary paled in the west.

He was satisfied to turn his face away entirely, and any call to look back was irksome.
She, on the contrary, was not at all inclined to accept anything less than a complete fulfillment of the letter of their relationship, though the spirit might be wanting.
"We are coming down town this afternoon," she remarked, a few days later.

"I want you to come over to Kinsley's and meet Mr.Phillips and his wife.

They're stopping at the Tremont, and we're going to show them around a little." After the occurrence of Wednesday, he could not refuse, though the Phillips were about as uninteresting as vanity and ignorance could make them.