"It's nothing." Then Fletcher Hill came up to them, and they separated.

Adela and Dot went up to bed, and the two men were left alone.
* * * * * So at length the great day dawned, and nothing had happened.

The only news that had reached them was a remark overheard by Adela in the dining-room, to the effect that Harley had thrown up his post and gone.
Dot dressed for her wedding with a dazed sense of unreality.

Her attire was of the simplest.

She wore a hat instead of a veil.