All these letters were pleasing to her. she answered the children in a cheerful frame of mind, promising them bonbons, and congratulating them upon their happy find of the little pigs. she answered her husband with friendly evasiveness,—not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference. to arobin's note she made no reply. she put it under celestine's stove-lid. which idea does the excerpt illustrate? a person often fills several different roles in life it is essential for a person to live openly and honestly a person must sometimes fib in order to achieve happiness responsibility to others often leads a person to feel weary