Bess would be bridesmaid, sustained thereunto by four damsels.

Mr.Fopling should have his part as best man; it would be good practice for Mr.Fopling, and serve to prepare him for his own wedding, an event which Bess, under the exhilarating influence of Dorothy's approaching nuptials, had determined upon for October.
Mrs.Hanway-Harley joined with Bess for the church.

Mrs.Hanway-Harley cast her vote delicately, saying she would have it expressly understood that she only gave it as a view.

She hoped no one would feel in any sense bound thereby; she had not been, speaking strictly, a party to this marriage, nothing in truth but a looker-on, and therefore it did not become her to assume an attitude of authority.

Mrs.Hanway-Harley would only say that churches were the conventional thing and studies were not.
Richard capitulated; indeed he gave way instantly and at the earliest suggestion of "church." His surrender, made with the utmost humility, did not prevent both Bess and Mrs.Hanway-Harley from demonstrating their position in full.
"When all is said," declared Richard, "the main thing is the wedding." Mrs.Hanway-Harley would like to know what plans had been laid for the honeymoon.