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And when it does -- we can weather it , do n't you think ? '' * * * * * During the next two months they were together more than they had been in the spring . He imposed day office hours upon himself and did no work in the evenings except the correcting of editorial proofs which he had sent to him at the house , at the theatre , or at whatever restaurant they were dining . And at midnight he called up the office on the telephone and talked with Mr. King or Mr. Vroom about the news in hand and the programme for presenting it in the next morning 's paper . But as `` people '' -- meaning Marian 's friends -- returned to town , they fell into the former routine . It was in part his doing , in part hers . He was now thirty-seven years old and his mind , always of a serious cast , was intolerant of trifles and triflers .