Chapter FourElmina walked slowly down the stairs to where her father, who like the rest of her family seemed considerably agitated, was waiting for her in the hall.
He drew his gold watch out of his waistcoat pocket as she appeared and called out,
“Come on, come on! You are late!”
It was impossible for Elmina to move quickly with the long veil being carried by her mother’s lady’s maid.
Because she was afraid of tripping, she was holding onto the banisters.
Her father did not watch her descend, for which she was grateful, for she was already anticipating a somewhat hostile reaction to her wedding gown.
After they had dined at Falcon, where the dinner party had been different from when the Earl dined at Warne Park because he had invited some of his relatives to join them, she had had n
