Lillie says she is her intimate friend." "Oh, well, John! we must get over it in the quietest way possible.

It wouldn't be handsome not to make the agreeable to your wife's company; and if you don't like the quality of it, why, you are a good deal nearer to her than any one else can be,--you can gradually detach her from them." "Then you think I ought to put a good face on their coming ?" said John, with a sigh of relief.
"Oh, certainly! of course.

What else can you do?
It's one of the things to be expected with a young wife." "And do you think the Wilcoxes and the Fergusons and the rest of our set will be civil ?" "Why, of course they will," said Grace.

"Rose and Letitia will, certainly; and the others will follow suit.

After all, John, perhaps we old families, as we call ourselves, are a little bit pharisaical and self-righteous, and too apt to thank God that we are not as other men are.