1:08:23
"Ellen, Granny's telegram succeeded.
Mama agreed to marriage after Easter.
1:08:28
Only a month.
I will telegraph Newland.
1:08:31
I'm too happy for words and love you
dearly. Your grateful cousin, May."
1:08:56
There had been wild rumors...
1:08:58
...until the wedding that Mrs. Mingott
would actually attend the ceremony.
1:09:03
She had sent a carpenter
to measure the front pew...
1:09:07
...in case it might be altered
to accommodate her.
1:09:10
But this idea,
like the great lady herself...
1:09:13
...was unwieldy, and she settled
for giving the wedding breakfast.
1:09:19
The Countess Olenska sent her regrets.
She was traveling with an aunt.
1:09:24
But gave the bride and groom
an exquisite piece of old lace.
1:09:29
Two elderly aunts in Rhinebeck
offered a honeymoon cottage.
1:09:33
Since it was thought "very English"
to have a country house on loan...
1:09:39
...their offer was accepted.
1:09:41
When the house proved suddenly
uninhabitable, however...
1:09:45
...Henry van der Luyden offered...
1:09:48
...an old cottage
on his property nearby.
1:09:52
May accepted the offer
as a surprise for her husband.
1:09:56
She'd never seen the house,
but her cousin Ellen had mentioned it.