It must be a serious affair if she's trying to read his books.

You hadn't even had much sexual experience: three men, wasn't it, in your 22 years, and only one of those a serious affair?

Spencer had two serious affairs but continued to love, and frequently visit, his first wife, until her death in 1950.

No one ever thinks of connecting him with serious affairs.

You have taken up the serious affairs of life, Mark.

An attack in greater force on the night of 15/16 April was a much more serious affair.

Then he would devote himself to the more serious affairs of life.

But that doesn't mean meals have to be serious, formal affairs.

He had meant to go, but there was in her voice what would have stopped him from affairs even more serious.

If so, why had he involved them in her serious affairs?