He opened his book and began to read.

What?
you will ask.
I answer, without the slightest hesitation, the first lines of the Marriage Service.
My subordinate had the audacity to look at me, and then to stuff his pocket-handkerchief into his mouth.

I scorned to pay any attention to him.

After I had discovered that the man "Jack" was the bridegroom, and that the man Jay acted the part of father, and gave away the bride, I left the church, followed by my men, and joined the other subordinate outside the vestry door.

Some people in my position would now have felt rather crestfallen, and would have begun to think that they had made a very foolish mistake.