The time is coming when you will hear of them again.) The preparations for the contemplated marriage went on.

The lawyers produced their sketch of the settlement; and Oscar wrote (to an address in New York, given to him by Nugent) to tell his brother of the approaching change in his life, and of the circumstances which had brought it about.
The marriage settlement was not shown to me; but, from certain signs and tokens, I guessed that Oscar's perfect disinterestedness on the question of money had been turned to profitable account by Oscar's future father-in-law.

Reverend Finch was reported to have shed tears when he first read the document.

And Lucilla came out of the study, after an interview with her father, more thoroughly and vehemently indignant than I had ever seen her yet.

"Don't ask what is the matter!" she said to me between her teeth.