If he chooses simply to ignore us after our marriage he will be behaving very badly." She had no answer to make to this.

She could not defend her father, because by doing so she would offend her husband.

And yet her whole life-long trust in her father could not allow her to think it possible that he should behave ill to them.
On their arrival at Florence he went at once to the post-office, but there was as yet no letter.

The fortnight, however, which had been named had only just run itself out.

They went on from day to day inspecting buildings, looking at pictures, making for themselves a taste in marble and bronze, visiting the lovely villages which cluster on the hills round the city,--doing precisely in this respect as do all young married couples who devote a part of their honeymoon to Florence;--but in all their little journeyings and in all their work of pleasure the inky devil sat not only behind him but behind her also.