Also she affected a charming innocence of all vulgar business matters, which both deceived and enchanted him.

Never but once did she allude to ways and means before marriage, and then it was to say that she was glad that they should be so poor till dear Sir Robert died (he had promised to allow them fifteen hundred a year, and they had seven more between them), as this would enable them to see so much more of each other.
At last came the happy day, and this white virgin soul passed into Geoffrey's keeping.

For a week or so things went fairly well, and then disenchantment began.

He learned by slow but sure degrees that his wife was vain, selfish and extravagant, and, worst of all, that she cared very little about him.

The first shock was when he accidentally discovered, four or five days after marriage, that Honoria was intimately acquainted with every detail of Sir Robert Bingham's property, and, young as she was, had already formed a scheme to make it more productive after the old man's death.
They went to live in London, and there he found that Lady Honoria, although by far too cold and prudent a woman to do anything that could bring a breath of scandal upon her name, was as fond of admiration as she was heartless.