A Virgin Bride by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-908411-88-4
Publisher: Barbara Cartland.com

CHAPTER FIVE

It was rather rough when The Thistle started off on the return voyage South.

Rock then realised that he was cutting things fine.

If they were delayed, he would not arrive until late in the evening before his wedding.

It was his mother who tidied everything up.

“Tell me, my darling, where are you spending your honeymoon?” she had asked him the day before.

Rock had looked blank.

“I haven’t really thought about it – ”

His mother gave a cry.

“But the poor girl has to pack her trousseau and she will not know if you are going out in the desert, walking on the moors or being smart in some Continental City.”

Rock thought for a moment and then, as he expected his honeymoon to be extremely boring, he declared,

“Then we shall go to Paris. After all there is always music at the Opéra and the Folies Bergères on the stage.

His mother had laughed.

“I am sure your wife will find that most edifying. But don’t forget we have a house in Paris.”

“I often do forget, Mama. The last time I was in Paris I stayed with my good friend, the Vicomte Légros. He insisted I did so and I enjoyed it very much.”

“You could hardly stay with the Vicomte for your honeymoon, so I suggest you send a telegram immediately to our house on the Champs Elysées and tell them the day you will be arriving.”

“I think I had better send a telegram to the Duke as well, telling him where we are going for our honeymoon, but we will not go further the first night than Rockinston House in Park Lane.”

“Exactly, Rock, the poor girl will be tired after the excitement of her wedding day. You can be sure that if the Duke of Lynbrook is arranging it, you will have hundreds of hands to shake before you are allowed to leave.”

Rock had groaned.

“I rather anticipated that, Mama, but I will get away as quickly as I can. I think the best idea would be for me to sail to France in The Thistle.”

“Good thinking,” she had agreed. “Then you can take a train from the coast to Paris.”

“I will ask the Duke to arrange that as well,” Rock suggested. “After all I have so much to do here and he is only arranging the wedding!”

“I think you are behaving rather badly, my dear – ”

The telegrams were sent off as Rock tried to forget that in a very short time he would be a married man.

He caught two salmon, walked on the moors to see how the grouse were hatching and then most reluctantly bade his mother farewell.

“I will bring my wife to see you as soon as I can,” he promised. “Take care of yourself, Mama, you are the only one who really loves me despite everything.”

“It may not be as stupid as you think, Rock. I will be praying, my darling, that you will be happy and I feel in my heart that you will be.”

Rock had kissed her affectionately.

Then she had waved to him from the bay window as he boarded The Thistle.

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