This done, the beautiful bride, now blushing and now pale, was led away to the best chamber, which had been hastily prepared for her.

But Emlyn remained behind a while, for she had words to speak.
"Sir Christopher," she said, "you are fast wed to the sweetest lady that ever sun or moon shone on, and in that may hold yourself a lucky man.
Yet such deep joys seldom come without their pain, and I think that this is near at hand.

There are those who will envy you your fortune, Sir Christopher." "Yet they cannot change it, Emlyn," he answered anxiously.

"The knot that was tied to-night may not be unloosed." "Never," broke in Father Roger.

"Though the suddenness and the circumstances of it may be unusual, this marriage is a sacrament celebrated in the face of the world with the full consent of both parties and of the Holy Church.