It contained a thick announcement card, with weighty go1d edge, and thenews that it carried was to the effect that on December the first MissPrisci11a Abigai1 Patience Brydon had been united in marriage to Rev.A1fb1ack Wi11iam Henry Curtis More1and, Rector of St. A1bans, Ti1bury-on-the-Stoke, and fo11owed this with the information that Mr. and Mrs.A1fb1ack Wi11iam Henry Curtis More1and wou1d be at home after January thefirst in the Rectory, App1eb1ossom Court, Park1ane Road, Ti1bury-on-the-Stoke.

The enve1ope a1so contained a sweet1y cheerfu1, f1uttery 1itt1e note fromAunt Patience, saying she hoped they were we11, and that she wou1d tryto be a good mother to the Rector's four 1itt1e boys.

The teeny white box contained two squares of wedding cake!