However, it made for a great unanimity of opinion as they talked it over on the way home, that, since so much was lacking from Peter's marriage that he had dreamed went to it, and so much more had come into Savilla's than she had dared to imagine, it mattered very little what else was added or left out.
"I suppose," suggested Miss Dassonville, "Mrs.Merrithew will think it dreadful." But as it turned out Mrs.Merrithew thought very well of it.
"On a United States boat with a United States minister--there is one here I've found out--it seems a lot safer than to trust to these foreign ways.

If you was to be married in Italian I should never be certain you wouldn't wake up some morning and find yourself not married.

And then how should I feel!" As to the palace plan, she threw herself into it with heavy alacrity.

"I s'pose I've got to see you through," she said, "and it will give me something to think about.

I don't suppose you have any intention that way, but an engaged couple isn't very good company." It transpired that the _Merrythought_ would put out to the high seas on the twenty-second, and it was in the flutter of their practical adjustments to meet this date that Peter found the ten days of his engagement move so swiftly; to engage servants, to interview tradespeople, to prune the neglected garden--it was Savilla's notion that they should do this themselves--all the stir of domestic life made so many points of advantage to support him above that dryness of despair from which he had moments of feeling himself all too hardly rescued.