We were pleased also at Mr.Gaskell's high place, remembering the kindness which he had shown us at Oxford in the previous year.

I desired to send him my compliments and felicitations when he should next be writing to him.
I did not doubt that my brother would return Mr.Gaskell's congratulations, which he had already received: he said, however, that his friend had given no address to which he could write, and so the matter dropped.
On the 1st of September John and Constance Temple were married.

The wedding took place at Royston, and by John's special desire (with which Constance fully agreed) the ceremony was of a strictly private and unpretentious nature.

The newly married pair had determined to spend their honeymoon in Italy, and left for the Continent in the forenoon.
Mrs.Temple invited me to remain with her for the present at Royston, which I was very glad to do, feeling deeply the loss of a favourite brother, and looking forward with dismay to six weeks of loneliness which must elapse before I should again see him and my dearest Constance.
We received news of our travellers about a fortnight afterwards, and then heard from them at frequent intervals.

Constance wrote in the best of spirits, and with the keenest appreciation.