She was tired after her long voyage, and she preferred the quiet of Greyhope; she was fond of riding and country-life; but still she would come to town for a time." And so on.
"Ah, dear me, how charming! And doesn't she resent her husband's absence--during the honeymoon?
or did the honeymoon occur before she came over to England ?" And Lady Balwood tried to say it all playfully, and certainly said it something loudly.

She had daughters.
But Marion was perfectly prepared.

Her face did not change expression.
"Yes, they had had their honeymoon on the prairies; Frank was so fascinated with the life and the people.

He had not come home at once, because he was making she did not know how great a fortune over there in investments, and so Mrs.Armour came on before him, and, of course, as soon as he could get away from his business, he would follow his wife." And though Marion smiled, her heart was very hot, and she could have slain Lady Balwood in her tracks.

Lady Balwood then nodded a little patronisingly, and babbled that "she hoped so much to see Mrs.Francis Armour.