The bride was married from Aucordier’s in a fawn crêpe de Chine coat and skirt made up in Monguèriac; for a week, William was forbidden to go in pursuit of the bassoon in case he smeared the costume with excited grubby hands. Mademoiselle Lafage’s mother was coming from Paris, and her friend Simone from the training college was to be bridesmaid, so Oriane did out William’s room and put a jug of lavender stalks on the washstand, so that Mademoiselle Lafage might wake alone on her wedding morning. Oriane thought that would be nice, for the last time. There was to be lunch in the café and dancing afterwards, with lights in the square. Mademoiselle Lafage had hoped for something quiet, some cake and champagne before the drive to the train (they were to take a walking tour in the Italian Alps), but François had persuaded her that they had to have a real country wedding. In Castroux, everyone attended everybody’s wedding whether they were invited or not, funeral too, come to that, so Mademoiselle Lafage resigned herself, and discreetly asked Betty Dubois to make sure that all the café’s shutters were kept wide open.
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