I had never heard a bride talk before, and she was so _happy_ that somehow it made you feel that getting married was the most beautiful thing in the world.
"One of the first things she did when she opened her suit-case was to take out a picture of Stuart.

It was a miniature on ivory in a locket of Venetian gold, because it was in Venice he had proposed to her.

After she had shown it to us, she put it in the centre of her dressing-table, with the white flowers all around it, as if it had been some sort of shrine.

There was a look in her eyes that made me think of the picture in Betty's room of a nun laying lilies on an altar.
"It is after luncheon now, and she has gone to her room to rest awhile.
So have the other girls.

But I couldn't sleep.