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He had developed laziness socially , liked to go to some restaurant for dinner with chance friends that were drifting continually through New York , and afterwards to the theatre , -- `` to see something lively , '' as he put it , preferably Weber and Fields ' , or Broadway opera . Isabelle felt that this was not the right thing , and boring , too ; but it would all be changed when they were `` settled . '' Meantime she went out more or less by herself , as the wives of busy men have to do . `` It is so much better not to bring a yawning husband home at midnight , '' she laughed to Cairy on one of these occasions when she had given him a seat down town in her cab . `` By the way , you have n't spoken of Conny lately , -- do n't you see her any more ? '' Isabelle still had her girlish habit of asking indiscreet , impertinent questions . She carried them off with a lively good nature , but they irritated Cairy occasionally .