She made March promise not to take him far, and to bring him back early, which he found himself very willing to do, after an exchange of ideas with Mr.Leffers.The young man began to talk about his wife, in her providential, her almost miraculous adaptation to the sort of man he was, and when he had once begun to explain what sort of man he was, there was no end to it, till they rejoined the ladies in the reading-room.
XLVII.
The young couple came to the station to see the Marches off after dinner the next day; and the wife left a bank of flowers on the seat beside Mrs.March, who said, as soon as they were gone, "I believe I would rather meet people of our own age after this.

I used to think that you could keep young by being with young people; but I don't, now.

There world is very different from ours.

Our world doesn't really exist any more, but as long as we keep away from theirs we needn't realize it.
Young people," she went on, "are more practical-minded than we used to be; they're quite as sentimental; but I don't think they care so much for the higher things.

They're not so much brought up on poetry as we were," she pursued.