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`` Well , I must say you 're the deep one if you did -- never letting on ! '' She was unable to repress a glance of admiration at me as she moved off . I stood where she had left me , meditating profoundly . Two days later at high noon was solemnized the marriage of his lordship to the woman who , without a bit meaning it , I had so curiously caused to enter his life . The day was for myself so crowded with emotions that it returns in rather a jumble : patches of incidents , little floating clouds of memory ; some meaningless and one at least to be significant to my last day . The ceremony was had in our most nearly smart church . It was only a Methodist church , but I took pains to assure myself that a ceremony performed by its curate would be legal .