The B Street house was deserted; the whole family came over to the city on the last day of May and stopped over night at one of the cheap downtown hotels.

Trina would be married the following evening, and immediately after the wedding supper the Sieppes would leave for the South.
McTeague spent the day in a fever of agitation, frightened out of his wits each time that Old Grannis left his elbow.
Old Grannis was delighted beyond measure at the prospect of acting the part of best man in the ceremony.

This wedding in which he was to figure filled his mind with vague ideas and half-formed thoughts.

He found himself continually wondering what Miss Baker would think of it.

During all that day he was in a reflective mood.
"Marriage is a--a noble institution, is it not, Doctor ?" he observed to McTeague.