11/17 She seems to have no thought but this. She treats her newly-made husband in a merry, perfectly unembarrassed, rather _boyish_ style, and is, in effect, quite delighted with her new move. At the breakfast he had made quite a finished little speech (he could never have told you afterwards what it was about), and when the bride was upstairs changing her wedding garments he had gone about amongst his guests with an air that left nothing to be desired. He looks quite an ideal bridegroom. A mad longing for solitude drags him presently, however, into a small anteroom, opening off a larger room beyond. |