单选题 After what could well be called a whirlwind courtship, Margaret unaccountably married him. The incongruity of the marriage was underlined by the fact of her undoubted physical beauty and his quite remarkable ugliness. Friends were too stunned for a while to indulge in even mild comment; it was as if the enormity of the match had dulled the edge of malice. He was of insignificant height, fat, and of a singularly unpleasant disposition. His clothes looked as though they had been carefully chosen to give the least possible flattery to an already handicapped body and added to the overall effect of grossness that Nature in her perversity had begun to create some thirty-five years before. It was thus that they walked together down the aisle, he bobbing at her shoulder like evil imp, she serene and calm, seemingly unaware of the striking contrast. Of course, gossip needs at least a basis of hard fact to feed its flame on, and so George, with no known background and no apparent antecedents, with few friends and, as far as was known, even fewer enemies, was poor fuel for those professional good friends who attach themselves to some circle and desperately try to compensate for their own inadequacy by laying bare the sores of others. The wedding passed and they immediately settled into domesticity with scarcely a ruffle. He could be seen regularly on the morning train to town, and it is pleasant to be able to record that his face was, for most of the time, buried in "The Times" and that his clothes were at least the right color to give the impression of respectable occupation. She, on most mornings, went about her various good works or shopped in the village. She was unfailingly polite and was thus well-liked by her neighbors. They entertained enough to fulfill the needs of convention and quickly sank into the comfortable anonymity of suburban life. All seemed set fair for a dull but tolerable existence. There was much disappointment among those who had predict that little short of disaster would ensue from such an unlikely mating. These good friends visited them, in consequence, more frequently perhaps than they would normally have done, in the hope of detecting the first crack in the structure of their marriage.

单选题 What initially prevented people from making remarks about the marriage?

单选题 The writer says that George's clothes

单选题 Why was it difficult to sustain gossip as far as George was concerned?

单选题 How frequently did they have friends to the house?

单选题 How did their friends react when the marriage seemed to be a success?