He was grateful to her beyond all words, and he had sworn to himself to be loyal to her.
Lady Rylton was distinctly annoyed when she heard of the arrangements come to.

She would have liked Maurice to have had entire control of his wife's fortune.

And, oddly enough, Tita was annoyed too.
"Oh, I _wish_ you had broken away entirely from Uncle George," she had said to Maurice, when he had come down on one of his flying visits to The Place between his engagement and his marriage.
"But why?
He seemed to me quite a nice old gentleman." She could not explain why, however, but only clung to her belief that they would be better without Uncle George.

She hated him.

That seemed to be the sum total of her objection.
Maurice had left The Place the morning after his engagement.