Love affairs did seem so trivial to her at this juncture.
"Alice Mendon has never cared a snap about getting married any way," returned Wilbur.

"Some women are built that way.

She is." Margaret did not inquire how he knew.

If Wilbur had told her that he had himself asked Alice in marriage, it would have been as if she had not heard.

All such things seemed very unimportant to her in the awful depths of her lie.