Dinah means to ask him, I believe.

I tell her that he is far too busy and important a personage to trouble with our small family concerns; but Dinah was quite indignant when I said that." "She has greater faith in his friendship, you see." But to this Elizabeth made no answer.

She went on talking with assumed eagerness of the young couple.
"Cedric intends to be married soon," she said.

"Mr.Strickland is going to let them have the Priory, and has taken a cottage for his own use.
How charmed Anna will be when she sees it--the garden is a dream of beauty, and the house is delightful!" For each summer she and Dinah had spent weeks at the Priory, and had succeeded in transforming the place.
Anna would have a lovely home, and the simple country life would be far more to her taste than ever town had been.

Even Mrs.Herrick, who would feel her loss keenly, owned this.
"And Mr.Herrick is to be asked on this grand occasion?
I am glad of that, Elizabeth;" and here Mr.Carlyon pushed up his spectacles and peered at her in his mild, short-sighted way.