"I never dreamed he could look so reverent and devoted.

I don't know which was nicer, Jessica, Nora's wedding or yours.

They were both beautiful." Happening to catch David's grave eyes fixed searchingly upon her she flushed and said hastily, "It must be almost time for the reception to begin." "So it is, and if I'm not mistaken here come the first guests," remarked Tom Gray.
For the next hour Jessica and Reddy were kept busy receiving the congratulations of the steady in-pouring of friends who came to wish them godspeed.

Then followed the wedding supper, and it was almost eleven o'clock when Jessica slipped away from her guests, and a little later, appeared at the head of the stairs in a smart tailored suit of brown, with hat, shoes and gloves to match.

No secret had been made of their departure, for their friends were not of those who delighted in playing embarrassing and discomforting pranks.