The house was a crush of wilting flowers, and smelt of tuberoses enough to give one a vertigo for a month.

A band of music brayed and clashed every minute of the time; and a jam of people, in elegant dresses, shrieked to each other above the din, and several of Lillie's former admirers got tipsy in the supper-room.

In short, nothing could be finer; and it was agreed, on all hands, that it was "stunning." Accounts of it, and of all the bride's dresses, presents, and even wardrobe, went into the daily papers; and thus was the charming Lillie Ellis made into Mrs.John Seymour.
Then followed the approved wedding journey, the programme of which had been drawn up by Lillie herself, with _carte blanche_ from John, and included every place where a bride's new toilets could be seen in the most select fashionable circles.

They went to Niagara and Trenton, they went to Newport and Saratoga, to the White Mountains and Montreal; and Mrs.John Seymour was a meteor of fashionable wonder and delight at all these places.

Her dresses and her diamonds, her hats and her bonnets, were all wonderful to behold.