The Serpent's Tooth by B.M. Croker

The honeymoon -- a not uncommon experience -- proved more or less of a disappointment to the wedded pair. The bride, dazed and confounded by her new status, and the change from a nobody to a personage, was shy and silent, and felt herself to be a mere lay figure in the hands of her maid -- a sour-faced, phlegmatic person with an inflated idea of her own importance, and more or less incompetent.

Tucker had been engaged by Mrs. Fenchurch, to whom she was warmly recommended by an acquaintance; a deceitful lady who was only too delighted to be rid of her encumbrance.