Perhaps they were right.

If none but saints may do the work of the world, much of its most useful work must go undone.
Haddington and Kate Bernard were married before Christmas.

Claudia deprecated such haste; and Eugene willingly acquiesced in her wish to put off the date of their own union.

He thought that being engaged to Claudia was a pleasant state of existence, and why hasten to change it?
Besides, as he suggested, they were not people of fickle mind, like Kate and Haddington (for, of course, Claudia had told him of Haddington's proposal to herself--it is believed ladies always do tell these incidents), and could afford to wait.

Eugene went to the wedding.