I don't wonder folks say you are crazy.

It is enough to make anybody crazy, to stay in one or two rooms and see nobody but Charles and me.

Just dress yourself in your best clothes and go down and be somebody, and don't talk of Gretchen all the time! I am tired of it, and so is everybody.

Give her a rest for one evening, and show the people how nice you can be if you only have a mind to.' Jerry delivered this speech with her hands on her hips, and with all the air of a woman of fifty; while Arthur laughed immoderately, and promised her to do his best not to disgrace her, and to appear as if he were not crazy.
Jerry's anxiety was somewhat like that of a mother for a child whose ability she doubts; and, after her supper was over she took her way to the park house to see that Arthur was dressed properly for the occasion.
'It would be like him to go without his neck-tie and wear his every-day boots,' she thought.
But she found him as faultlessly gotten up as he well could be in his old-fashioned evening dress, which sat rather loosely upon him, for he had grown thinner with each succeeding year.
Jerry thought him splendid, and watched him admiringly as if he left the room and started for the parlors, with her last injunction ringing in her ears: 'Not a word out of your head about Gretchen, but try and act as if you were not crazy.' 'I'll do it, Cherry.

Don't you worry,' he said to her, with a little reassuring nod, as he descended the stairs.
And he kept his promise well.