"Dead?"
"Quite dead."
"But how?"
"Fell off his mount. Snapped his neck."
Gytha blinked, then stared closely at her father. She saw no sign of lying in his round, plain face, although he did look strangely uncomfortable. She waited to feel grief for the loss of her betrothed, the handsome and gallant baron, William Saitun. A pang came and went. She had seen little of him, after all. What puzzled her now was why the wedding preparations continued. If William was dead, then surely the wedding could not go on? A moment later her mother revealed that her thoughts had followed the same path.
"But what of the wedding? The feast is being prepared even now." Bertha's ever-rounding figure trembled as she grew increasingly upset. "The guests are arriving. Should I turn them away?"
"No need to do that, Bertha, loving."
"Papa, I cannot marry a dead man."
"Of course you cannot, dearling." John Raouille briefly covered his daughter's delicate hand with his thick, calloused one.
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