"The assizes may be held that very week--who knows ?--the very day we are married." She stopped, looking at her mother almost threateningly.

Mrs.Boyce showed no sign of surprise.

She put her work down.
"I had imagined you might say something of the kind," she said after a pause.

"I don't know that, from your point of view, it is unreasonable.
But, of course, you must understand that very few people will see it from your point of view.

Aldous Raeburn may--you must know best.