Jeanie smiled.
"It's Miss Whitburn's idea. Could anything be more beautiful?"
He was by Maud's side now and he said quite gravely,
"I took note of everything, Miss Hamilton."
"Oh," said Maud smiling, "it would not do for your tastes. Hanover Square and a rowdy audience!"
"Indeed you are unjust. This is the first wedding I have enjoyed——"
Mrs. Hamilton was smiling, but, thinking Edward Lang wanted to make up to Toney, she did not invite him to the breakfast. Only Maud lingered a minute to say something, and then the poor people came trooping out, and when Toney reappeared she was too busy talking to them to see anything else.
The breakfast at Waycott Hall was a great trial to Toney, but she fought against this lion and no one found out she was in a battle. Dr. Mayo acted as best man, and his speech was short but to the point.
"The bridegroom being a friend of long standing, I rise to drink his health. The bride I have only seen to-day, but I congratulate her from the bottom of my heart. To be the wife of Frank Weston means to be the wife of a genius—that is nothing, he was born a genius, he couldn't help himself—but it also means to be the wife of a man who, having a grand profession, has always ennobled it, and who has never, by thought, word, or deed, lowered the high standard he set before himself, and I think Mr. and Mrs. Weston are wise to go at once to Germany, so as to avoid such demonstration from the musical world here as might be overpowering."
The bridegroom's speech was also very short.