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What he supposed was likely enough . He thought that Edbury and Mabel were much of a pair , and thought , I suppose , that if Edbury saw her he 'd find he could n't leave her , and old Lady Kane , who managed him , would stand nodding her plumes for nothing at the altar . And so she did : and a pretty scene it was . She snatched at the minutes as they slipped past twelve like fishes , and snarled at the parson , and would have kept him standing till one P.M. , if Janet had not turned on her heel . The old woman got in front of her to block her way . `` Ah , Temple , '' she said to me , `` it would be hard if I could not think I had done all that was due to them . '' I did n't see her again till she was starting for Germany .