117. The Bride Runs Away

The beautiful Iona Langdale is walking in her favourite wood the day before her wedding, which is planned to be a huge Society event with marquees and fireworks and attended by her large family and all her smart friends from London.She is musing dreamily about how happy she will be once she is married to her next door neighbour, John Moreton, whom she has known since childhood.Beside a hut by a pool in the wood, she sees her fiancé’s horse tied up to a post and can hear voices coming from inside