She was not going to give Mary's faction a chance to crow over her, but having heard Ethel's story, she was privately of the opinion that the Nassau trip, though not perhaps the match-makers' devices, had helped Ethel to decide her momentous question. "That's what was worrying her before vacation," she reflected, "and it made her queer and changeable on the trip. One minute she thought she was going to be married, and the next she was afraid she wasn't. But as soon as she got back to her beloved work she found out that she liked him best."