This will be better still.

Your future wife must, of course, examine the house; no doubt she'll be a far better judge than you of what needs doing.

When you are back from your honeymoon we shall go to work together on arranging books.

That'll be a rare time! We shall throw up our arms, like Dominie Sampson, and cry "Prodigious!"' He grew mirthful, indulging the boyish humour which, as a reaction from his accustomed lonely silence, came upon him when he had a sympathetic companion.

To Gilbert this was a new phase of Egremont's character; he, sober in happiness, answered the young man's merriment with an expressive smile.
Grail had merely mentioned the fact of his intended marriage.