Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "FROM THIS DAY FORWARD" The Dover express. In a reserved compartment are a newly- married couple. The guard locks the door; the train leaves Victoria. The Bride (aged twenty, to herself, during the bustle of settling comfortably down in her corner of the carriage). Thank goodness it's all over . . . and so well too Not a hitch anywhere. Quite a success. The music simply lovely, and the champagne not bad?for a wedding. Mamma and the girls looked awfully smart. Too smart, perhaps. . . . Such a contrast to some of his own people. I must confess mamma's pink bolero and gold lockets didn't show to advantage beside Lady Mary's black velvet and rows of pearls. His relations are a dowdy lot, but then they're almost all in Debrett or something, so I suppose they can afford to look frumpish. I can't. I should never have made such a really satisfactory match if I hadn't always been in the latest fashion. I am always better dressed than any other woman, wherever I go. That's what attracted him. I have done well for myself. I'm not sorry to get settled. ... I was getting a little sick of that sort of questionable carnival we've always kept, and which mamma calls "life." I don't think any of "the boys" turned up at the church?I told them not. It's rather rough on a girl not to be able to produce one male belonging who's a credit to her, on an occasion like this There's Uncle Hopps, who was obliged to give me away. He's not so bad; but such a red face, such a Gargantuan buttonhole, such a distended white waistcoat I should like to have thrown the ink-bottle over the whole of his fagade when I saw him come in. Well, it's finished, and now I'm " My Lady." (Looking across at her husband) He's not half so bad .... the word "gentleman" writ large all over him. What if there are thirty yea...