ABSTRACT
The whole town of Hollingford came to congratulate and inquire into particulars. Some indeed – Mrs. Goodenough at the head of this class of malcontents – thought that they were defrauded of their right to a fine show by Cynthia’s being married in London. Even Lady Cumnor was moved into action. She, who had hardly c ever paid calls ‘out of her own sphere,’ who had only once been to see ‘Clare’ in her own house – she came to congratulate after her fashion. Maria had only just time to run up into the drawing-room, one morning, and say, –
