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Marsworth was making his mark in the Intelligence Department of the War Office , and was being freely named as the head of an important Military Mission to one of the Allied Headquarters . What would become of Cicely and the wedding , if the post were given him , and -- as was probable -- at a day 's warning -- was not quite clear . Cicely , however , took it calmly . ` They ca n't give us less than three hours ' notice -- and if it 's after two o'clock , we can always get married somehow by five . You scurry round , pay fifty pounds , and somebody at Lambeth does it . Then -- I should see him safely off in the evening ! ' Meanwhile Bridget Cookson was living in her usual Bloomsbury boarding-house , holding herself quite aloof from the idle ways of its inmates , who , in the midst of the world-war , were still shopping as usual in the mornings and spending the afternoons in tea and gossip .