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A year passed without issue for Margaret and Robert. Della and Ned had decided to marry, and Della was nerving herself to confess, first to Robert, and worse, to her mother.
Robert, established, was as proud as his mother, but Della had stood by him and Margaret, and Margaret was now standing by Della. William was disappointed that Della should be a failure, his clever good-looking sister, so well educated! Her marriage, even to Ned, would relieve him of the humiliation of having in his family the only old maid he knew. Harry was warmly for his old mate, and everybody liked Ned personally, when the shock of the parity in years wore away.