Rose, who latterly had been all in the downs, took heart of grace amid the general gloom, and rattled away like the Rose of other days.

To her the idea of her father's marriage was rather a good joke than otherwise.

She had no deep feelings to be wounded, no tender memories to be hurt, and the universal embarrassment tickled her considerably.
"You ought to have heard everybody talking on stilts, Reginald," she said, in the flow of her returned spirits, some hours later, when the gentlemen returned.

"Kate was on her dignity, you know, and as unapproachable as a princess-royal, and Grace was looking disconcerted and embarrassed, and papa was trying to be preternaturally cheerful and easy, and Eeny was fidgety and scared, and I was enjoying the fun.

Did you ever hear of anything so droll as papa's getting married ?" "I never heard of anything more sensible," said Reginald, resolutely.
"Grace is the queen of housekeepers, and will make the pink and pattern of matrons.