groove

A man gets in a groove in New York.

Eventually, however, Avonlea school slipped back into its old groove and took up its old interests.

Two days afterwards they carried Matthew Cuthbert over his homestead threshold and away from the fields he had tilled and the orchards he had loved and the trees he had planted; and then Avonlea settled back to its usual placidity and even at Green Gables affairs slipped into their old groove and work was done and duties fulfilled with regularity as before, although always with the aching sense of “loss in all familiar things.” Anne, new to grief, thought it almost sad that it could be so--that they _could_ go on in the old way without Matthew.

In vain I endeavoured to interest him in Afghanistan, in India, in social questions, in anything which might take his mind out of the groove.