keeping company

So she had been keeping company with the sea cows—and she talked of them as “friends.”

The difference is not much for husband and wife, though it is rather much for keeping company.'

This girl was 'keeping company' with a longshoreman, who had as much as $25 in good weeks.

And then there's keeping company and getting married, and having your setting out.

One sister was grown up and "keeping company," the other a nice handy girl.