He was still storming, when the door was thrown open and Mrs.Dagon rushed in.
"What does it all mean ?" asked she.
Mr.Newt stopped in his walk, smiled contemptuously, and pointed to his wife, who sat with her handkerchief over her eyes.
"Pooh!" said Mrs.Dagon, "I knew 'twould come to this.

I've seen her hugging him the whole winter, and so has every body else who has eyes." And she shook her plumage as she settled into a seat.
"Mrs.Boniface Newt is unfortunately blind; that is to say, she sees every body's affairs but her own," said Mr.Newt, tauntingly.
Mrs.Dagon, without heeding him, talked on.
"But why did they run away to be married?
What does it mean?
Fanny's not romantic, and Dinks is a fool.

He's rich, and a proper match enough, for a woman can't expect to have every thing.

I can't see why he didn't propose regularly, and behave like other people.

Do you suppose he was actually engaged to his cousin Hope Wayne, and that our darling Fanny has outwitted the Boston beauty, and the Boston beau too, for that matter?
It looks like it, really.