The next time they saw each other, their amorous flesh was confined in their black Sunday best at St. Osmund’s. The vicar preached on a passage from 1 Corinthians: “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” At the end of the service, he announced the first banns of marriage for Mabel White of Wool and Ivanhoe Blunt of Blunt Farm, Osmington, who were to be wed at the bride’s parish of Holy Rood three months hence. The congregation tittered with approval. Outside, Fred was congratulating Van on his
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