Edith Lennox's Marriage to the General of Belgravia

Mrs. Shaw said that her only child should marry for love, and side emphatically as if love had not been her motive for marrying the general. Edith would certainly have preferred a good house in Belgravia to all the picturesqueness of life which Captain Lennox described at Corfu. The very parts which made Margaret glow as she listened, Edith pretended to shiver and shudder at. Yet had anyone come into a fine house and to find a stay and a fine title to boo, Edith would still have clung to him while the temptation lasted.