This clarifies very little for Ellis.

"What was I meant to think?" feels like the best way forward, narrowing down between what Wysteria might have forgotten to tell him and Maud's involvement and his own folly in perceiving Val de Foncé as Wysteria's husband to the question that seems most relevant.

There was a wedding. Tony had made a speech. Ellis knows all of this, even if he hadn't been in attendance.

If there is some terrible, traitorous clench of feeling somewhere deep in his chest, that is besides the point. Unrelated to present confusion, Orlesian terms referencing marital separations and the bright flush of Wysteria's face.