CHAPTER XXXIThey were married as quickly as possible. The ceremony was a mere postscript to Char's funeral, as if to fix in Jean's mind once and for all how little difference her marriage was to make.
Her father hated weddings, so she was married in London from an aunt's; but Jean had a fragmentary interview with him at Victoria Station before she and Ian went abroad.
Jean thought that her father looked very much older, and as if his life with Carrie had accentuated in him his sense of the past. They had a queer speechless meal together; or rather it would have been speechless if it had not been for Ian's tact. They were grateful for his ready interventions, but Jean saw that although her father liked him, he couldn't understand why Jean had thought it necessary to marry him.
Both Jean
