over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood. A stormy discussion as to whether the wedding presents should be \"shown\" had darkened the last hours before the wedding; and it seemed inconceivable to Archer that grown-up people should work themselves into a state of agitation over such trifles, and that the matter should have been decided (in the negative) by Mrs. Welland's saying, with indignant tears: \"I should as
over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood. A stormy discussion as to whether the wedding presents should be \"shown\" had darkened the last hours before the wedding; and it seemed inconceivable to Archer that grown-up people should work themselves into a state of agitation over such trifles, and that the matter should have been decided (in the negative) by Mrs. Welland's saying, with indignant tears: \"I should as