The Age of Innocence • Paragraph 1640
Stage 1 of 6

Read it through once

"For _us_? But there's no _us_ in that sense! We're near each other only if we stay far from each other. Then we can be ourselves. Otherwise we're only Newland Archer, the husband of Ellen Olenska's cousin, and Ellen Olenska, the cousin of Newland Archer's wife, trying to be happy behind the backs of the people who trust them."