Thoreau writes in his journal:
E. Hosmer tells me that his daughter, walking with Miss Mary Emerson to some meeting or lecture,—perhaps it was Mrs. Smith’s, [Elizabeth Oakes Smith]—the latter was saying that she did not want to go, she did not think it was worth while to be running after such amusements, etc., etc. Where up Miss Hosmer asked, “What do you go for, then?” “None of your business,” was the characteristic reply . . .
