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"I always thought there was good in him by his looks," said Miss Wodehouse, standing in the porch of St. Roque's, after the wedding-party had gone away. "To think he should have come in such a sweet way and married Mrs. Fred! just what we all were wishing for, if we could have ventured to think it possible. Indeed, I should have liked to have given Mr. Chatham a little present, just to mark my sense of his goodness. Poor man! I wonder if he repents -- "
"It is to be hoped not yet," said Lucy, hurrying her sister away before Mr. Wentworth could come out and join them; for affairs were seriously compromised between the perpetual curate and the object of his affections; and Lucy exhibited a certain acerbity under the circumstances which somewhat amazed the tenderhearted old maid.