What a disappointment to me--what a bitter disappointment! Well, I should be used to them by now." Meanwhile, Morris was in his workshop in the old chapel entering up his record of the day's experiments, which done, he drew his chair to the stove and fell into thought.

Somehow the idea of the engagement of Miss Fregelius to Stephen Layard was not agreeable to him; probably because he did not care about the young man.

Yet, now that he came to think of it quietly, in all her circumstances it would be an admirable arrangement, and the offer undoubtedly was one which she had been wise to accept.

On the whole, such a marriage would be as happy as marriages generally are.

The man was honest, the man was young and rich, and very soon the man would be completely at the disposal of his brilliant and beautiful wife.
Personally he, Morris, would lose a friend, since a woman cannot marry and remain the friend of another man.