after her.
Wild
rumours
had been
abroad the
day before
to the
effect
that Mrs.
Manson
Mingott,
in spite
of her
physical
disabilities,
had
resolved
on being
present at
the
ceremony;
and the
idea was
so much in
keeping
with her
sporting
character
that bets
ran high
at the
clubs as
to her
being able
to walk up
the nave
and
squeeze
into a
seat. It
was known
that she
had
insisted
on sending
her own
carpenter
to look
into the
possibility