Arielle stayed the night at
Cliff Haven and got ready for the
wedding there and when it was time to go, Molly entered
the room and said excitedly
“Your carriage
has arrived”
Arielle hurriedly
left the room and as soon as she got outside, she gasped
“It’s beautiful!”
Arielle said
“It’s absolutely
gorgeous”
“Isn’t it” agreed
Molly
The thing they
were so enraptured by was a small
two-wheeled horse-drawn cart with a small tub body decorated with flowers and
inside were two opposite inward-facing seats, it was known as a Governess Cart,
Danny had borrowed from Woodside Farm.
It was pulled by a heavy-set
white horse and by the horse’s head was stable girl Lisa Scott wearing a tweed
hacking jacket and jodhpurs and riding boots.
“Climb aboard” Lisa said
There was a small, hinged
door at the back with a step below George opened the door and Arielle got in
first, then Molly and finally George himself.
“We’ll see you there” Danny
said and closed the door and then nodded to Lisa.
“Walk on boy” she said, and
the horse and cart moved off.
It took less than ten minutes
for Lisa to lead the Horse and Trap down the hill and along Church Lane to the
Church.
George and Molly were
chattering away the whole trip, but Arielle didn’t hear a word as she was lost
in the magic of it all, she was so happy.
When they reached St Clara’s
Lisa halted the cart where the other bridesmaids were waiting.
The church was
full to overflowing, such was her popularity not merely in the village but
across the island and it was a wonderful ceremony and afterwards, even those
who didn’t attend the Church waved her off as she and Harry left the Church in
a 1930 Bentley Speed Six.
The reception was being held
at the Beaumont Manor, which was Molly’s wedding present to them along with the
wedding night in the Bridal Suite, the Bentley was Danny’s contribution.
One of the Wedding Guests was
Max Parsons and in order to prevent him from pestering them about the latest
chapters, which were well overdue, Molly made sure they were seated out of
earshot, so he was as far away as possible and was seated next to St Clara’s
Headteacher Margaret Johnson and the striking thirty eight year old redhead
kept his attention throughout the reception and beyond, because Danny and Molly
saw him sheepishly leaving her room the next morning as they were heading to
the restaurant for breakfast.
They were laughing as they
headed downstairs because they had seen him, but he hadn’t seen them, then
Molly suddenly stopped and said with alarm.
“If they become a thing, he
might come to the island more often”
“Yes, but he’ll be coming to
see the busty redhead, not us” he reassured her, and suitably comforted she
thoroughly enjoyed her full English.
They stayed at the Hotel long
enough to see Arielle and Harry off then they drove home with their wedding
clothes and got back just in time to hear Henry Noble deliver his first sermon,
then after lunch they both dozed off in front of the TV.
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