I think, except to the bride and bridegroom, a wedding is a very sorrowful thing. I suppose Guy would say that was one of my queer notions. But it looks to me so terribly like a funeral. There is a bustle, and a show; and then you wake up, and miss one out of your life. It is true, the one can come back still: but does he come back to be yours any more? I think the instances must be very, very few in which it is so, and only where both are, to you, very near and dear. I think Marguerite saw I looked tired and sad. "There have been light hearts to-day," she said; "and there have been heavy ones. But the light of to-day may be the heavy of to-morrow; and the sorrow of to-night may turn to joy in the morning." "I do feel sorrowful, Margot; but I do not know why." "My Damoiselle is weary. And all great joy brings a dull, tired feeling after it. I suppose it is the infirmity of earth. The angels do not feel so." "I should like to be an angel," said I. "It must be so nice to fly!" "And I," said Marguerite; "but not for that reason. I should like to have no sin, and to see the good God." "Oh dear!" said I. "That is just what I should not like. In the sense of never doing wrong, it might be all very well: but I should not want never to have any amusement, which I suppose thou meanest: and seeing the good God would frighten me dreadfully." "Does my Damoiselle remember the time when little Jacquot, Bertrade’s brother, set fire to the hay-rick by playing with lighted straws?" "Oh yes, very well. Why, what has that to do with it?" "Does she recollect how he shrieked and struggled, when Robert and Pierre took him and carried him into the hall, for Monseigneur himself to judge him for his naughtiness?" "Oh yes, Margot. I really felt sorry for the child, he was so terrified; and yet it was half ludicrous—Monseigneur did not even have him whipped." "Yet, if I remember rightly, my Damoiselle was standing by Monseigneur’s side at the very time; and she did not look frightened in the least. Will she allow her servant to ask why?" "Why should I, Margot? I had done nothing wrong." "And why is my Damoiselle more like Jacquot than herself, when she comes to think of seeing the good God?" "Ah!—thou wouldst like me to say, Because I have done wrong, I suppose." "Yes; but I think there was another reason as well." "What was that, Margot?" "My Damoiselle is Monseigneur’s own child. She knows him. He loves her, and she knows it." "But we are all children of the good God, Margot." "Will my Damoiselle pardon me? We are all His creatures: not all His children. Oh no, no!" "O Margot!" said I suddenly, "didst thou note that tall, dark, handsome knight, who stood on Count Guy’s left hand,—Count Raymond of Tripoli?" "He in the mantle lined with black sable, and gold-barred scarlet hose?" "That is the man I mean." "I saw him. Why, if it please my Damoiselle?" "Didst thou like him?" "My Damoiselle did not like him?"