'The wedding,' she wrote, 'lacked nothing but a costumier and a composer.

The bride and bridegroom should have been in fancy dress, and a new Gounod was needed to compose the wedding-march of a marionette.

One might have taken the ceremony seriously as an artistic whole under those circumstances.' Mrs.Willoughby continued to keep Fielding informed of the progress or the married couple, and in May hinted at dissensions.

The hint Fielding let slip one day to Drake.

Drake, however, received the news with apparent indifference, and indeed returned to England in September with Fielding without having so much as referred to the subject.
During the month which followed his return, he preserved the same appearance of indifference, seeming, indeed, thoroughly engrossed in working off arrears of business.