We know it from Mr.Eustace Glazzard, who is one of their friends." "Then _why_ were they married abroad ?" came in Mrs.Roach's shrill voice.

"_Can_ English people be legitimately married abroad?
I always understood that the ceremony had to be repeated in England." "It was at Paris," said Mrs.Walker, the depressed widow of a bankrupt corn-merchant.

"There is an English church there, I have heard." The others, inclined to be contemptuous of this authority, regarded each other with doubt.
"Still," broke out Mrs.Roach again, "_why_ was it at Paris?
No one seems to have the slightest idea.

It is really very strange!" Mrs.Mumbray vouchsafed further information.
"I understood that she came from Stockholm." "Didn't I _say_ she came from Denmark ?" interrupted Mrs.Tenterden, triumphantly.
There was a pause of uncertainty broken by Serena Mumbray's quiet voice.
"Dear Mrs.Tenterden, Stockholm is not in Denmark, but in Sweden.

And we are told that Mrs.Quarrier was an English governess there." "Ah! a governess!" cried two or three voices.
"To tell the truth," said Mrs.Mumbray, more dignified than ever after her vindication, "it is probable that she belongs to some very poor family.