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`` I am , darling . So you may kiss him yourself when he comes to-morrow evening . '' And Tishy 's passion for the shop-boy had to stand over . But , as the Major had said , the mother and daughter talked till three in the morning -- well , past two , anyhow ! The segment of a circle of Society that did duty for a sphere , in the case of Mrs. Nightingale and Sally , was collectively surprised when it heard of the intended marriage of the former , having settled in its own mind that the latter was the magnet to Mr. Fenwick 's lodestone . But each several individual that composed it had , it seemed , foreseen exactly what was going to happen , and had predicted it in language that could only have been wilfully mistaken by persons interested in proving that the speaker was not a prophet . Exceptional insight had been epidemic .