behind-the-timesy

Updated: May 5, 2025

"You do get so out of things," Madeleine told her with her usual breathless italicizing, "if you stay away too long. You just never can catch up! There's a behind-the-timesy smell about your clothes honest, there is if you let them go too long." Marietta added her quota of experienced wisdom to the discussion. "If you just hang over a baby all the time, you get morbid, and queer, and different."

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Squirrel-Cage