I shouldn't like to be his wife; I can tell Julia that." "Julia is very clever," said the sister.
The day of the marriage came, and everything at Clavering was done with much splendor.

Four bridesmaids came down from London on the preceding day; two were already staying in the house, and the two cousins came as two more from the rectory.

Julia Brabazon had never been really intimate with Mary and Fanny Clavering, but she had known them well enough to make it odd if she did not ask them to come to her wedding and to take a part in the ceremony.

And, moreover, she had thought of Harry and her little romance of other days.

Harry, perhaps, might be glad to know that she had shown this courtesy to his sisters.