It was the third of March, 1882, that Violet Vernon Hale, the daughter of the well known Admiral was married at St George’s, Hanover Square, to Professor D’Arcy Crapp Munro, lecturer upon Bacteriology and Comparative Anatomy in the London School of Medicine. Public opinion among the friends of the two parties was somewhat divided on the subject of the match. The Professor's supporters who were not very numerous, held that he was a man whose wife any girl in the world might be proud to be, and none proclaimed this opinion more loudly than the bride's own mother. The other section however which comprised not only a majority of lady friends, but also some half dozen very vehement young gentlemen declared that the whole affair was unnatural, and that so sweet and feminine and sympathetic a girl as Violet Vernon Hale should be prevented from mating with a hard dry Philosopher whose whole mind was absorbed by the labours of the laboratory. However as neither Parliament nor the law courts seemed disposed to intervene the ceremony was duly performed, and the Professor with an unmoved clearcut face, and an abstracted eye handed his weeping and tremulous wife into the carriage which awaited them. Amid a shower of rice from the friends, an old boot from one young man, and a bitter curse from another, they rattled off upon the first stage of that life's journey the goal of which no human wit could prophecy.