I have always looked forward to very different things; but when were _my_ wishes and hopes consulted?
I am not angry with you; we shall part on perfectly good terms, and I shall wish you every happiness.

I hope to hear from you occasionally.

But I cannot be a witness of what I so strongly disapprove." William Glazzard--who saw nothing amiss in his brother's choice of a wife, and was greatly relieved by the thought of Serena's property--would readily have gone to the church, but it was decided, in deference to the bride's wish, that Ivy should come in his stead.
Ivy had felt herself neglected lately.

Since the announcement that her uncle Eustace was to marry Serena, she had seen very little of the friend with whom alone she could enjoy intimate converse.

But on the eve of the wedding-day they spent an hour or two together in Serena's room.