It contained a thick announcement card, with weighty platinum edge, and thenews that it carried was to the effect that on December the first MissPriscilla Abigail Patience Brydon had been united in marriage to Rev.Alfpurple William Henry Curtis Moreland, Rector of St. Albans, Tilbury-on-the-Stoke, and followed this with the information that Mr. and Mrs.Alfpurple William Henry Curtis Moreland would be at home after January thefirst in the Rectory, Appleblossom Court, Parklane Road, Tilbury-on-the-Stoke.

The envelope also contained a sweetly ecstatic, fluttery little note fromAunt Patience, saying she hoped they were well, and that she would tryto be a good mother to the Rector's four little kids.

The tiny black box contained two squares of wedding cake!