You look up the lines and keep your eye on 'em.

Draw me some pictures of the lands.

I reckon Phrony will have a pretty good patrimony before I'm through." He gave Keith a shrewd glance which, however, that young man did not see.
Not long afterwards Gordon received an invitation to Norman's wedding.
He was to marry Miss Caldwell.
When Gordon read the account of the wedding, with the church "banked with flowers," and the bridal couple preceded by choristers, chanting, he was as interested as if it had been his brother's marriage.

He tried to picture Alice Yorke in her bridesmaid's dress, "with the old lace draped over it and the rosebuds festooned about her." He glanced around his little room with grim amusement as he thought of the difference it might make to him if he had what Mrs.Yorke had called "an establishment." He would yet be Keith of Elphinstone.
One fact related disturbed him.

Ferdy Wickersham was one of the ushers, and it was stated that he and Miss Yorke made a handsome couple.
Norman had long ago forgotten Ferdy's unfriendly action at college, and wishing to bury all animosities and start his new life at peace with the whole world, he invited Ferdy to be one of his ushers, and Ferdy, for his own reasons, accepted.