"I think suburbs are horrible; they are neither one thing nor the other.

We had a lawn and shade trees, and a croquet ground, and a tennis court, but we bought our milk and eggs and most of our vegetables.

There isn't any real country in all that, you know.

I was never in a haymow in my life.

All I know about that sort of thing is from books." When, with many thanks for the courtesies offered them, Mrs.Drane and her daughter had driven away, Miriam sat by herself on the piazza and thought.