Sitting there, it would not be hard to keep her thoughts on mortality.
Would it not have been graceful in him to attend church to-day?
Would she in future worship under the canopy alone?
No time had been lost.

Mr.Wyvern received notice of the proposed marriage less than two hours after Adela had spoken her world-changing monosyllable.

She put in no plea for delay, and her mother, though affecting a little consternation at Mutimer's haste, could not seriously object.

Wanley, discussing the matter at its Sunday tea-tables, declared with unanimity that such expedition was indecent.

By this time the disapproval of the village had attached itself exclusively to Mrs.
Waltham; Adela was spoken of as a martyr to her mother's miserable calculations.