CHAPTER XIV.
THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDING.
Deerham could not believe the news.

Verner's Pride could not believe it.
Nobody believed it, save Lady Verner, and she was only too thankful to believe it and hug it.

There was nothing surprising in Sibylla's marrying her cousin Fred, for many had shrewdly suspected that the favour between them was not altogether cousinly favour; but the surprise was given to the hasty marriage.

Dr.West vouchsafed an explanation.

Two of his daughters, aged respectively one year and two years younger than Amilly, had each died of consumption, as all Deerham knew.