She had called early, on purpose to give her views, with the ostensible excuse of an inquiry about her sister-in-law's health.
"I am afraid you will be rather unfavorably impressed with Tristram's choice, when you have seen her, Jane," she announced.

"I confess I was.
She treated us all as though _she_ were conferring the honor, not receiving it, and she is by no means a type that promises domestic tranquillity for Tristram." "Really, Julia!" Lady Tancred protested.

"I must beg of you to say no more.

I have perfect confidence in my son, and wish to receive his future wife with every mark of affection." "Your efforts will be quite wasted, then, Jane," her sister-in-law snapped.

"She is most forbidding, and never once unbent nor became genial, the whole evening.