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The little Church outside the great gates of the Château was decorated with white lilies.
Apart from the bride and the bridegroom and Monsieur Byien, who was the Duc’s best man, there was nobody else in the Church.
The village Priest officiated with two Servers and Arletta felt that the empty aisles were filled with the spirits of those who had lived in the Château for so many generations and had worshipped there.
They had left behind them their prayers and faith that she had been so vividly conscious of the first time she had prayed in the old Church.
She had asked the Duc to see that all the candles were lit before the statue of Joan of Arc and, when he looked surprised, she had told him,
“I lit one the first time I came here and I prayed that somehow the shadows over the Château
