The Happiest Time of Their Lives

It is the romance book. A study of New York society in which eighteen year old Mathilde Severance falls in love and wants to marry Pete Wayne, in the early twenties. There is nothing to prevent except that Pete is not wealthy and his mother is a social reformer instead of a society woman. How Pete finally persuades Mathilde's very snobbish mother and how he becomes good friends with all the family form the slight plot. It was filled, perhaps a little too much filled, with objects which seemed to have nothing in common except beauty; but propinquity, propinquity of older date than the house in which they now were, had given them harmony. Nothing in the room was modern except some uncommonly comfortable sofas and chairs, and the pink and yellow roses that stood about in Chinese bowls.