In these families the young ladies talk openly of their lovers, and generally prefer that subject of conversation to any other.

Such a family--so little mysterious--so open in their arrangements, was that of the Burtons at Stratton.

The reserve in the reserved families is usually atoned for by the magnificence of the bridal arrangements, when the marriage is at last solemnized; whereas, among the other set--the people who have no reserve--the marriage, when it comes, is customarily an affair of much less outward ceremony.

They are married without blast of trumpet, with very little profit to the confectioner, and do their honeymoon, if they do it at all, with prosaic simplicity.
Florence had made up her mind that she would be in no hurry about it.
Harry was in a hurry; but that was a matter of course.

He was a quick-blooded, impatient, restless being.