The wedding is fixed for just before New Year’s, and Fiona is to wear a white lace wedding gown. Mr. Connor is insisting on it, he says ever since Queen Victoria was married in white lace, back in 1840, it became all the fashion. And by thunder, he says, he and Fiona are going to be the leaders of fashionable society in Wick! Just because he’s English he thinks he is grander than all the Scots put together. I know Mr. Markam doesn’t like him, I heard him muttering “insufferable prig” the other day after they had all dined together. Madam just ignores him. She thinks because Mr. Connor is rich and is building a fine big house on the other side of Wick he can do no wrong.
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