It would, she said, be her duty and her pleasure to assist in getting ready her niece's wedding outfit, but she left her to fix the day on which she would come to London.
This letter was a little thunderbolt in the Harlow villa, and Jane said she could not go away until her mother was settled at Harlow House.

John was much troubled at this early break in his love dream, but Mrs.Harlow would not listen to any refusal of Lord and Lady Harlow's invitation.
She said Jane had never seen anything of life, and it was only right she should do so before settling down at Hatton.

Besides, her uncle and aunt's gifts would be very necessary for her wedding outfit.

In the privacy of her own thoughts--yes, and several times to her daughter--she sighed deeply over this late kindness of Lord and Lady Harlow.

She wished that Jane had been asked before she was engaged; nobody knew in that case what good fortune might have come.