And now here's Lauren Groff reading The Faithful by Elizabeth Hardwick.

Hardwick.The Faithful.

The travels of youth, the cheapness of things and one's intrepid poverty.

All ye who love the Prince of Orange, take heart and follow me.

So it was Holland that year, 1951.

Descartes, more than three hundred years before, had spoken of himself as the only foreigner in Amsterdam not on business.

Everywhere we went in Europe that year, everywhere except for Amsterdam, there were Americans just like ourselves, those who had not been married long or were not married at all, most of us with fellowships and a little savings.

Sure, I'd love that.