as glass.
“The match must have been got up hastily,” said Diana: “they cannot have known each other long.”
“But two months: they met in October at the county ball at S⸺. But where there are no obstacles to a union, as in the present case, where the connection is in every point desirable, delays are unnecessary: they will be married as soon as S⸺ Place, which Sir Frederic gives up to them, can be refitted for their reception.”
The first time I found St. John alone after this communication, I felt tempted to inquire if the event distressed him: but he seemed so little to need sympathy, that, so far from venturing to offer him more, I experienced some shame at the recollection of what I had already hazarded. Besides, I was out of practice in talking to him: his reserve was again frozen over, and my frankness was congealed beneath it. He