It wasn’t as if he were going to ask her instead, so what would she have to gain by preventing a match between him and Edwina? Nothing except the agony of having to see him married to her sister. And that would fade in time, wouldn’t it? It had to; she herself had just said the night before that time truly did heal all wounds. Besides, it would probably hurt just as much to see him married to some other lady; the only difference
