“No. They were married from the earl’s town house. The squire was unable to take the journey. He was very quiet and somber about the affair.”
“George Eltham, I suppose, was Antony’s chief friend?”
“He was not there at all. The Elthams went to the Continent shortly before the wedding. It troubled the squire.”
“Why? What particular difference could it make?”
“He said to me that it was the beginning of a change which he feared. George will leave t’ firm next. Antony ought to have married Cicely Eltham. I know Eltham—he’ll be angry at Cicely having been passed by—and he’ll show it, soon or later, I’m sure.’”
“But Antony had a right to please himself.”
“I fancy that he had been very attentive to Miss Eltham. I remember noticing something like it myself the summer you and I were first at Hallam.”
“Elizabeth says, in her last letter, that they are in Paris.”
“Probably they are back in England by this time. Antony has taken a very fine mansion at Richmond.”
“Is the bride pretty?”