Two hours after Surrey’s letter came his sister Gwen rode over to Beauvais House eager to tell Evelyn the news of his luck in America. It was almost five o’clock in the beautiful autumn afternoon, and she found Evelyn at tea on the porch that looks out upon the Italian garden. “It’s settled,” she said. “They’re to be married on the 5th of November--only two months! And George says she is sweet and lovely--not at all like the Americans we know. And her dot is a million and a half--he calls it seven and a half, but he means in their money, which sounds bigger, but counts smaller, than ours. She’ll get twice that when her father dies--and he’s nearly seventy and not strong. And I’m so glad and…
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