The elder sisters could never have found a husband in this way.

The revelation must have shocked them at first.' Rhoda dismissed the subject lightly, and henceforth showed only the faintest interest in Monica's concerns.
Monica meanwhile rejoiced in her liberation from the work and philosophic seventies of Great Portland Street.

She saw Widdowson somewhere or other every day, and heard him discourse on the life that was before them, herself for the most part keeping silence.

Together they called upon Mrs.Luke, and had luncheon with her.

Monica was not displeased with her reception, and began secretly to hope that more than a glimpse of that gorgeous world might some day be vouchsafed to her.
Apart from her future husband, Monica was in a sportive mood, with occasional fits of exhilaration which seemed rather unnatural.