At last they reached the altar.

An usher quickly touched his arm and he stepped back where he belonged.

He listened but understood nothing.

Just words, words and motions.
"If any man can show just cause why they may not be lawfully joined together, let him now speak or else hereafter forever hold his peace." "No," thought Roger, "I won't speak." Just then he caught sight of Deborah's face, and at the look in her steady gray eyes all at once he could feel the hot tears in his own.
At the wedding breakfast he was gay to a boisterous degree.

He talked to strange women and brought them food, took punch with men he had never laid eyes on, went off on a feverish hunt for cigars, came back distractedly, joked with young girls and even started some of them dancing.