You'll get up out of this, Ethel Knight--just wait.
Can't you give a few months to Amy now ?" And scowling at her "morbidness" in feeling dreary and forlorn, she resolutely scanned the papers for news of lectures, plays and concerts.
She went to a few in the afternoons, and dressed for them as carefully as though they were great social affairs.

And in the intermissions when a buzz of talk would rise, she would begin with quick animation to converse with herself and be gay, or alert and argumentative.

Her lips would move inaudibly.

Now and then she would brightly smile and nod across the house at some friend she pretended to have seen.

She enrolled for a course of lectures upon "Mental Science." She resumed her reading of magazines and books on all kinds of topics.