I have, however, no remedy to offer for the evil; and, indeed, am aware that the evil, if there be an evil, is not well expressed in the words I have used.

The hurry is not for matrimony, but for love.

Then, the love once attained, matrimony seizes it for its own, and the evil is accomplished.
And Lily Dale was engaged to be married to Adolphus Crosbie,--to Apollo Crosbie, as she still called him, confiding her little joke to his own ears.

And to her he was an Apollo, as a man who is loved should be to the girl who loves him.

He was handsome, graceful, clever, self-confident, and always cheerful when she asked him to be cheerful.