What with pre-nuptial arrangements, palimony, child custody, we have become accustomed to the short-lived, high octane relationships on which glossy magazines feed.
He begins with congratulations on the approaching nuptials of my eldest daughter, of which, it seems, he has been told by some of the goodnatured, gossiping Lucases.
She was more alive to the disgrace, which the want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham, a fortnight before they took place.