By early afternoon all was in readiness and the girls were resting.
Miss Gertrude had not been allowed to help but had stayed quietly in
her room.
The wedding was at half past four, and at that hour the little church,
which looked perfectly lovely in the opinion of the decorators, was
pleasantly filled with murmuring groups of Rosemont people, who agreed
that the feathery decorations proved yet another plume in the caps of
the Club members, and of New York people who gazed at the modest
country chapel and found it charming.
There was a happy _brrrr_ of pleasant comment while the organ played
softly. Roger and James were two of the ushers. Friends of Edward's,
young doctors, were the other two.
As the organ broke into the Lohengrin march and Edward, with Tom for
his best man, appeared at the chancel, Gertrude came down the aisle
from the other end of the church. She wore a simple white trailing
dress of soft silk, clasped at the breast with the ancient
brilliant-framed miniature of another Gertrude Merriam. A pearl
pendant, a gift from Ayleesabet, hung from her neck. On her ungloved
right hand the older Gertrude Merriam's ring blazed beside Edward's
more modest offering.
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