If we had made taboo of irrelevant gossip between the acts of a serious play our evening would have been a failure.

Theirs would have been, and, in fact, was a success.

Connubial felicity they certainly achieved: and what else but an impertinence is a criticism of the means?
Easter came.

They had been married six months.

"The Diamond Gate" had been published for nearly a year and was still selling in England and America.