Means of Evil And Other Stories
“She steadied the large floral hat which her husband had called becoming but not exactly conducive to sotto voce intimacies. "What on earth makes you say that?" "Thomas Hardy. He said it first. But look in your Prayer Book." The bridegroom waited, hang-dog, with his best man. Michael Burden was very much in love, was entering this second marriage with someone admirably suited to him, had agreed with his fiancée that nothing but a religious ceremony would do for them, yet at forty-four was ...a little superannuated for what Wexford called "all this white wedding gubbins." There were two hundred people in the church. Burden, his best man and his ushers were in morning dress. Madonna lilies and stephanotis and syringa decorated the pews, the pulpit and the chancel steps. It was the kind of thing that is properly designed for someone twenty years younger. Burden had been through it before when he was twenty years younger. Wexford chuckled silently, looking at the anxious face above the high white collar.MoreLess
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