Tom is now standing at the church door, talking to Henrietta and her father. ‘I’m terribly sorry,’ he says. ‘the says. ‘the service will be a few minutes late. There’s a problem with the flowers.’
‘with the flowers?’ asks Henrietta. ‘what problem?’ she clearly doesn’t want any problems on her well- planned wedding day. Henrietta gets annoyed very easily.
‘well,’ says tom, thinking hard, ‘they are making some people ill, so we have to move them.’
Henrietta and her father look angry, but they wait at the door. People in the church are getting restless now too. They’re wondering what’s happening. The bride must have arrived by now. Where is the groom?
‘I think they believed me!’ tom tells Scarlett. He is pleased with himself. ‘people think I’m stupid, you see. So they don’t realize that I can tell a clever lie!’
David has now joined Matthew and Charles in the side room. Charles still won’t go back into the church. He is too unhappy and confused. David hits the table to make a noise. So that Charles will notice him.