I could have them sail, in imagination, and discover an imaginary Europe, and give their grotesque misconceptions of it from travels and novels against a background of purely American experience.

We needn't go abroad to manage that.

I think it would be rather nice." "I don't think it would be nice in the least," said Mrs.March, "and if you don't want to talk seriously, I would rather not talk at all." "Well, then, let's talk about our Silver Wedding Journey." "I see.

You merely want to tease and I am not in the humor for it." She said this in a great many different ways, and then she was really silent.

He perceived that she was hurt; and he tried to win her back to good-humor.