“It is entirely due to you, Harry, that I found myself walking to Wonderland,” the Duke answered. “I too can hardly believe that it is true. But it has made me a different man and the happiest you are ever likely to meet.”
“I hope to hear you saying that for the rest of your life,” Harry replied.
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The Duke took Alysia to meet his grandmother later on in the afternoon after a delicious luncheon in the sunshine.
She cried with obvious joy because her beloved grandson was married at last.
“I was great friends with your grandmother,” she told Alysia, “and I do remember how upset she was when her youngest daughter, who was so beautiful, ran away.”
“It really saddened Mama to have upset her family so much,” Alysia said, “but she loved Papa overwhelmingly.”
“And that is how you love my gr
