Few strangers ever visited the little watering-place.

The residents were people who preferred quiet and beautiful scenery to everything else.

There was a hotel, called the Queen's, where the few strangers that came mostly resided; and just facing the sea stood a newly-built terrace of houses called Sea View, where other visitors also sojourned.
It was just the place for lovers' dreams--a shining sea, golden sands, white cliffs with little nooks and bays, pretty and shaded walks on the hill-top.
Madaline's great happiness was delightful to see.

The fair face grew radiant in its loveliness; the blue eyes shone brightly.

There was the delight, too, every day of inspecting the parcels that arrived one after the other; but the greatest pleasure of all was afforded by the wedding-dress.