And the wedding was one of the most beautiful and sumptuous of the weddings of the September season.

There were flowers, and bridesmaids in long veils, and tall ushers in frock-coats, and awnings at the church door, and strings of motors with wedding-favours on imported chauffeurs, and all that goes to invest marriage on Plutoria Avenue with its peculiar sacredness.

The face of the young rector, Mr.Fareforth Furlong, wore the added saintliness that springs from a five-hundred dollar fee.

The whole town was there, or at least everybody that was anybody; and if there was one person absent, one who sat by herself in the darkened drawing-room of a dull little house on a shabby street, who knew or cared?
So after the ceremony the happy couple--for were they not so ?--left for New York.

There they spent their honeymoon.