The match had evidently been predestined.
[Footnote 39: John Hay, writing to his friend Henry Adams under date of London, August 25, 1887, has the following to say about the party at Kilgraston: "After that we went to Andy Carnegie in Perthshire, who is keeping his honeymoon, having just married a pretty girl....

The house is thronged with visitors--sixteen when we came away--we merely stayed three days: the others were there for a fortnight.

Among them were your friends Blaine and Hale of Maine.

Carnegie likes it so well he is going to do it every summer and is looking at all the great estates in the County with a view of renting or purchasing.

We went with him one day to Dupplin Castle, where I saw the most beautiful trees I ever beheld in my wandering life.