tle visits: from her mother, who came and came
again, with a cheerful front, but her heart very low, merely to look
at her, to give her a kiss in passing, to make sure that she was still
there: and from Minnie, very busy, wanting to have a finger in everything,
to alter her dress at the last moment, and the way in which her veil
was put on. "For it is quite different from mine," Minnie cried, "and it
stands to reason that there cannot be _two_ ways of putting on a veil."
Then there would come a young sister of Dick's, very shy, very anxious
to make friends, admiring Chatty and her orange blossoms, with that
sense of probable future occurrences in her own life of the same
description which makes sympathy so warm. Then Mrs. Wilberforce, who
though disapproving much of the wedding in London, was yet mollified by
her husband's share in it, and association with the bishop; and Lady
Markland, who gave the bride a kiss of tender sympathy and said nothing
to her, which Chatty felt to be the kindest of all. Minnie, on the other
hand, had a great inclination from the depths of her own experience
to give her sister advice. "You must remember, Chatty, that a man is
not just like one of us. When you are travelling you must be sure to
recollect that--they can't do with a bun or a cup of coffee or that sort
of thing, they must always have something substantial to eat. You see
they take so much more out of themselves than we do. And they like you
to be ready to the minute, though you have often got to wait for
them--and----"

"But, dear Minnie, men are not all alike," said Mrs. Wilberforce, "no
more than women are. Don't you think you had better leave her to find
out for herself? She will learn soon enough," she added with a sigh,
softly shaking her head, as though the experience could not but be
melancholy when it came; "men, like everything else, are changing every
day. The chivalry one used to meet with is quite gone--but what can you
expect in these times?"

"I don't like this puffing at all," said Minnie; "if I were you, I would
have it taken off. Oh, I am not at all of your opinion about the times.
We are Liberal on both sides. The Thynnes have always gone in for
progress and advancement; and when you think how much everything has
improved----"

"If you call it improvement!" said Mrs. Wilberforce with something like
a groan; but whether this was in reference to things in general, or to
the removal of the tulle puffing over whi