Our Mutual Friend Book 1 Chapter 10 - A Marriage Contract

In which we behold the preparations and ceremonials surrounding a certain grand marriage, marked by floral finery and social manoeuvrings, with the ever-dutiful Mr Twemlow appointed a peculiar role in the proceedings. Subsequently, upon the quiet sands of Shanklin, the newlywedded pair engage in a fraught discourse, revealing mutual deceits and a tacit agreement to face the future as one, though not without a shadow of regret.