The question with them would be, whether Harry Clavering was good enough for her.
Everybody at Stratton knew that she was engaged, and when they wished her joy she made no coy denials.

Her sisters had all been engaged in the same way, and their marriages had gone off in regular sequence to their engagements.

There had never been any secret with them about their affairs.

On this matter the practice is very various among different people.

There are families who think it almost indelicate to talk about marriage as a thing actually in prospect for any of their own community.
An ordinary acquaintance would be considered to be impertinent in even hinting at such a thing, although the thing were an established fact.
The engaged young ladies only whisper the news through the very depths of their pink note-paper, and are supposed to blush as they communicate the tidings by their pens, even in the retirement of their own rooms.
But there are other families in which there is no vestige of such mystery, in which an engaged couple are spoken of together as openly as though they were already bound in some sort of public partnership.