And the more pleasure these activities gave her, the less she had to spare for those accompaniments of her engagement and her position that was to be, which once, as Mrs.Boyce's sharp eyes perceived, had been quite normally attractive to her.
"Why do you take up her time so, with all these things ?" said Miss Raeburn impatiently to Lady Winterbourne, who was now Marcella's obedient helper in everything she chose to initiate.

"She doesn't care for anything she _ought_ to care about at this time, and Aldous sees nothing of her.

As for her trousseau, Mrs.Boyce declares she has had to do it all.

Marcella won't even go up to London to have her wedding-dress fitted!" Lady Winterbourne looked up bewildered.
"But I can't make her go and have her wedding-dress fitted, Agneta! And I always feel you don't know what a fine creature she is.

You don't really appreciate her.