Henderson, Grey's valet, a tall, spare Scot with rugged features who in the course of his seven years' service had acquired, in his manner and way of speaking, a curious and striking likeness to his master, was the second witness.
It was wholly characteristic of Olivia that she felt no slightest need of the supporting presence of a woman.

Yet, for all the unfamiliar simplicity of the scene, the ceremony did not lack dignity, or impressiveness.

At the end of it Olivia felt herself very much more the wife of Antony Grey than she had ever felt herself the wife of Lord Loudwater.
They dined in a private dining-room at the "Ritz," and Olivia found the dinner delightful.

The three men, after some desultory talk about common friends and the ordinary London subjects, fell to talking about their work and their fighting in France.

She was most pleased by the evident respect and admiration with which the other two regarded her husband.