“The answer was ‘no’ until this moment,” the Duke answered, “and that is just why, Father, I have brought my future wife here, the moment my yacht came into Port.”
“If that is where you are,” the Priest replied, “then there is no reason for you to go back. Your fiancée can change in my house and my wife will be pleased to help.”
He smiled before he added,
“I must find my two sons who will take part in your Wedding, who can help me prepare the Church.”
The Duke merely nodded and the Priest went on,
“It is now, I think, getting on for five o’clock. If you are married at six o’clock, which is usually the time we close the Church, there will be no visitors and you two young people will have the place to yourselves.”
“That is what I want,” the Duke replied. “I have always been afraid o
