It was not only an eligible match for Sir Peter Chillingly,--it was a brilliant match.

It was also a very unexceptionable match for Miss Caroline Brotherton.

This excellent couple got on together as most excellent couples do.

A short time after marriage, Sir Peter, by the death of his parents--who, having married their heir, had nothing left in life worth the trouble of living for--succeeded to the hereditary estates; he lived for nine months of the year at Exmundham, going to town for the other three months.

Lady Chillingly and himself were both very glad to go to town, being bored at Exmundham; and very glad to go back to Exmundham, being bored in town.
With one exception it was an exceedingly happy marriage, as marriages go.