The feeling of reassurance deepened.
Marriage wasn't so appalling.

Good heavens! Dozens of people were married every day and she was quite sure they were not all wildly in love with each other.
Then the service commenced and the soft rise and fall of responsive voices murmured through the church a little space.

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It was over very quickly--Nan almost gasped to find how astonishingly short a time it takes to settle one of the biggest things in life.