"The Age of Innocence"

I so much love this novel by Edith Wharton. It was published 1920 and it won the Pulitzer Prize. Did I say how much I love that book? I do love it. And it is one of these stories that are good and true, because they don't have an ending (because of many other reasons, too.) Edith Wharton stops to tell the story, and you think "That's it." (and I did with regret)... but at the same time the story goes on and on and on, ar least in my thoughts. I love this book, I know I said it already, but this novel is really a true one.

Here is a little praliné for example: Newland Archer and Ellen Olenska try to do some smalltalk on their last evening together, for more than thirty years to come. They are in company and are being watched closely, and so Newland and Ellen have to say SOMETHING, and they talk about the hardships of traveling and that it can be cold, and Ellen said then that "after all, one could always carry an extra rug".... oh, she is one who even when she is talking about "nothing" she talks about SOMETHING. 
I love that book. And the idea of an extra rug.