All their backs were towards Barry, where he stood in the hall, and as he glided toward them, he heard the deep voice stop, and then the trembling voice of a girl speak in reply.
At the first entrance he paused, for the whole scene unrolled before him.

It was a wedding.

Just in front of him, on chairs and even on benches, sat the majority of adult Alder,--facing these stood the wedding pair with the minister just in front of them.

He could see the girl to one side of the minister's back, and she was very pretty, very femininely appealing, now, in a dress which was a cloudy effect of white; but Barry gave her only one sharp glance.

His attention was for the men of the crowd.