CHAPTER XIII
“A QUIET WEDDING”
At seven o’clock they were all assembled in Mrs. Force’s room, waiting for the summons to go down.
They were all dressed with the simple elegance that became the occasion.
Odalite wore a white silk-trained dress, with a lace overdress looped with lilies of the valley, and a lace veil fastened to her hair by a spray of the same delicate flower. She wore no jewelry. It was a whim of the bride to wear nothing on this occasion that she had worn on that of her first broken bridal—not even the same sort of materials for her dress, or the same sort of flowers for ornaments. Her bridal was very plain and inexpensive. But no flowers could have bloomed more beautifully than her cheeks and lips, and no diamonds shone more brilliantly than her eyes. The light of happiness irradiated her face and form—her whole presence and atmosphere.
The nine bridesmaids were all dressed very nearly alike.
Wynnette, Elva and Rosemary had white tulle dresses trimmed with rose-colored ribbon.
Sophy, Nanny, Polly and Peggy Grandiere wore white organdie dresses trimmed with light blue ribbon; and Erny and Milly Elk, white swiss muslin suits trimmed with bright yellow ribbon.
Mrs. Force wore a pale mauve damasse silk.
No one except the young bride wore any headdress but their own tastefully arranged hair.
It was to be a quiet wedding, you know—a very quiet wedding, with none but the family friends.