Chapter 12

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​‌‌⁠“A bride who doesn't see her duty, should be made to see it,” declared Mrs. Sequin to Mrs. Ivy in her most impressive manner. “Something is naturally expected of the wife of John Jay Queerington. I told her expressly that Friday was her day, I even telephoned to remind her, and here it is four o'clock, and people beginning to come, and she off playing tennis!”

They were waiting in the twilight of t