Are All These Quite Necessary Troubles?

She had not been quite sure from her aunt's rather confused account of his engagements, whether he would come that night. She received him with a smile which had not a tinge of shyness or self-consciousness in it. A sense of indescribable weariness of all the arrangements for a pretty effect oppressed her just now. But are all these quite necessary troubles? Ask Margaret, looking up straight at him for an answer.