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She had always wanted to be married at Grace Church in New York, but New York is no place for August weddings, if an August wedding you must have; so Carolyn's invitations, which appeared almost immediately after the engagement was announced, told everyone that Mr. and Mrs. Pitchley begged them to be present at their daughter's marriage in the drawing room of the Château de Plaisance.
Cope had modestly slipped on a coat. The fire was dying that was the only difference between twelve o'clock and ten. "If I had known what was going to happen," declared Medora volubly, "I never could have gone to bed at all! And to think" here she left Carolyn's end of the settle and drew nearer to Cope's "that I should ever have even thought of coming out here without a man!"
"Thank heaven it's over!" exulted Jeff, with his classmates, when, after the last triumphant speech of the evening, the audience was dismissed to the strains of a rejoicing orchestra. "Say, fellows, I'm going to bolt. Hullo, Just! Ask Evelyn for me if she won't go home flying with me in the Houghton auto Carolyn's just sent me word."
She even accompanied Amy to the door at the close of Cope's short stay. He shook hands with them both. He had decided that he would do no more than this with Amy, in any event, and Carolyn's presence made his predetermined course easy, even obligatory.
Karen's hand trembled as she drew the lone nine of Clubs from the dummy, to place beside Carolyn's Ace, but Penny's fingers were quite steady as she followed with the deuce of Clubs, to which Karen added, with a trace of characteristic uncertainty, the eight. "There's our book!" Carolyn Drake exulted obediently, but she cast an apologetic glance toward Penny.
Carolyn's best girl chum was married herself in the spring, so she had to be what they call a Matron of Honour.
"I should rather not speak of her at all," said Miss Trueman severely. They raised their eyebrows helplessly: Carolyn's irritation was so unfeigned that she omitted a justly famous shrug.
Hortense took Carolyn's slight and fond observations with a silent scorn. When she spoke at all, she was likely to say something about "family"; and it was gathered that the dashing correspondent at Nashville was conspicuously "well-connected." Also, that he belonged to the stirring New South and had put money in his purse.
"H'm," thought Medora, disposed to be miffed. Still, Carolyn had, after all, the same right to attend as anyone else. Medora and Basil Randolph added their congratulations to Carolyn's. Cope, still in academic garb, performed the necessary introductions. His air was eager, but cursory; smiling and ready, yet impersonal and cool; above all, expeditious.
And a single small taper is infinitely greater in point of light and cheer than none at all. Carolyn's little world underwent illumination, and she with it. She promptly soared to a shining infinity. Medora Phillips could not overlook Carolyn's general glow, nor the sense of elevation she conveyed.
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