It's quite as well that it should be known.

I sha'n't choose to have more delay than can be avoided.

Well;--I believe that's all." "I hope she'll be a good wife to you, Frederic." "I don't see why she shouldn't.

Good-bye, mother.

Tell the girls I will see them next Saturday." He didn't see why this woman he was about to marry should not be a good wife to him! And yet he knew nothing about her, and had not taken the slightest trouble to make inquiry.