Now, however, after this last attack, three doctors in consultation announced that it would be well for him to escape from the fogs and damp of England.

So to Beaulieu he was ordered.
This decree caused consternation in various quarters.

Mr.Porson did not wish to go; Mary and Morris were cast down for simple and elementary reasons; and Colonel Monk found this change of plan--it had been arranged that the Porsons should stop at Seaview till the New Year, which was to be the day of the marriage--inconvenient, and, indeed, disturbing.

Once those young people were parted, reflected the Colonel in his wisdom, who could tell what might or might not happen?
In this difficulty he found an inspiration.

Why should not the wedding take place at once?
Very diplomatically he sounded his brother-in-law, to find that he had no opposition to fear in this quarter provided that Mary and her husband would join him at Beaulieu after a week or two of honeymoon.