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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Well, I think there is a visit to her younger sister who eloped, after she is married, but I don't think that would match with the description in the OP.
And which one is the book where the heroine's best friend marries an ex-suitor of the heroin to escape being a spinster? There is also a visit later in the book and it becomes clear that the marriage is not a very happy one.
ETA: I think that one is Pride and Prejudice too.
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Hm, you posted this as I had the page already open and so I didn't see this before posting. Well now, this visit to her younger sister who eloped in Pride and Prejudice, that does sound like it could be it... Why do you think it wouldn't match?
The second book (or separate scene from the same book!) you mention also sounds like a possibility, though perhaps not as it seems like the woman I'm thinking of married young (so wouldn't have worried about becoming a spinster), and the marriage could be unhappy, but I don't remember that but rather just that they don't have as much money as would be liked. But still a possibility.
ETA - I just looked around Google and found a site I'd never heard of called WikiSummaries that have chapter-by-chapter summaries of I suppose mostly classics. Anyway, I looked at the page for Pride and Prejudice (
http://www.wikisummaries.org/Pride_and_Prejudice) and searched separately for the terms "Wickham", "Lydia" and "visit" and couldn't find a chapter that included a visit to the married couple, however I did find a chapter involving a letter from a Mrs. Gardiner detailing Darcy's visit to the unmarried couple in London.
I've just downloaded the book and skimmed the chapter. It could possibly be what I'm thinking of, I'll admit, but... So many things seem different that it may be more a case of possibly forcing the wrong but similar puzzle pieces together. I would've had the London part right, and the money part right, and the age right, and the relationship to the protagonist, and that's a lot, but on the other hand, there is no "a ha, that's it!" moment and in fact the entire scene I'm thinking of wouldn't have even been there! It was only briefly mentioned in the letter of Darcy finding them whereas I recall a visit (from the main female protagonist, not just her beau) including descriptions of the house (not to mention a different name for the sister as well as her already being married and possibly with children). But again, if I've jumbled things up in my memory and no other more obvious answer arises, I do admit that this could be it!