Oh! she has been trying for him to such a degree.
Innocent and quiet as you sit here, you cannot have an idea of the _sensation_ that you will be occasioning, of the curiosity there will be to see you, of the endless questions I shall have to answer! Poor Margaret Fraser will be at me for ever about your eyes and your teeth, and how you do your hair, and who makes your shoes.

I wish Margaret were married, for my poor friend's sake, for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

And yet it was a most desirable match for Janet at the time.

We were all delighted.

She could not do otherwise than accept him, for he was rich, and she had nothing; but he turns out ill-tempered and _exigeant_, and wants a young woman, a beautiful young woman of five-and-twenty, to be as steady as himself.
And my friend does not manage him well; she does not seem to know how to make the best of it.