"That's right. Quite like old times."
"You must go about with your uptown friends and be very gay, so you won't be lonesome."
"I'll manage."
"I hope the Melisande picture will not be installed before I get back. I want to see that," she said.
"I'm nearly through with it, now."
"It's your best work, Jerry. I know it is going to be a success for you."
He smiled mirthlessly.
"Do you remember what I said on our way to be married?"
She shook her head.
"I don't know why I remember it—wasn't so very brilliant—but it comes to me. I said: 'this is the kind of thing they talked in the tumbrils.' We always face our crises with platitudes, Jane."