Three hours later, in the rose garden, Pip and Lord Octavius were married by special license. The ceremony was small and informal, family members only, but it didn’t matter that Pip had no family of her own because these people already felt like family.
Following the wedding came a champagne luncheon, after which the younger members of the party headed outside for a merry game of blind man’s bluff and an even merrier game of hide-and-seek.
Pip discovered that the kitchen garden was an excellent place in which to hide, and that the water garden was not. She discovered how impossible it was to be quiet when one was overcome with the giggles. And she discovered how much she liked being kissed by her husband in the Chinese Folly and in the maze and under various wisteria-covered bowers.
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