Chapter 4 — <br/> Chapter Four<br/>

The guests arrived early in carriages, in one-horse chaises, two-wheeled
cars, old open gigs, waggonettes with leather hoods, and the young people
from the nearer villages in carts, in which they stood up in rows, holding
on to the sides so as not to fall, going at a trot and well shaken up.
Some came from a distance of thirty miles, from Goderville, from
Normanville, and from Cany.

All the relatives of both families had been invited, quarrels between
friends arranged, acquaintances long since lost sight of written to.