"Expectations" (Book 2), by Gratiana Lovelace (2018-2019), (Completed)

Ch. 32: Wedding Nervousness

"Expectations" (Book 2)--Ch. 32: Wedding Nervousness,
August 12, 2019 by Gratiana Lovelace (Post #1255; and on Wattpad)

[an original Regency romance copyrighted by Gratiana Lovelace, 2018 - 2019; all rights reserved); [(1) story cover art, top left]

[As is my custom, from time to time I will illustrate my story with my ideal cast consisting of (in order of importance/mention in this chapter): Lord Duncan of York, the Viscount Lindsay (portrayed by Rupert Penry-Jones); and his fiancé Lady Elizabeth Blount of Sussex (portrayed by Jessica Brown Findlay)]

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Ch. 32: Wedding Nervousness

With Lady Elizabeth Blount of Sussex having settled her major wedding issues of her gown, tiara, flowers, attendants, and that her and Lord Duncan Viscount Lindsay of York's wedding will be singular—with her being the only bride that day at the Sussex Village Church in now only one week's time—Lady Elizabeth is beginning to revert to her former personality of extreme shyness and incapacitating nervousness.

Lady Madeline notices Lady Elizabeth's unease first—when Lady Madeline relayed to Lady Elizabeth a womanly talk, as requested by their Grandmother Dowager Countess Lady Catherine. Lady Madeline hoped that she had conveyed to her best friend and sister-in-law Lady Elizabeth the loving tenderness to be expected from one's husband—as well as, some of the practical matters of love making. A pale faced Lady Elizabeth slowly nods to her sister-in-law Lady Madeline. Lady Madeline feeling quite pleased to have the wedding night matter addressed with expedience and decorum this fine Monday morning.

Then Lady Elizabeth mutely but gracefully exits Lady Madeline's boudoir for her own bed chamber—with Lady Elizabeth wondering how she can ever look at her brother Christy and his wife Maddie again, without thinking about them doing that. Hence the reason for Lady Elizabeth declining joining her family and her fiancé Lord Duncan for luncheon this day.

Naturally, Lord Duncan was disappointed not to see his soon to be bride Lady Elizabeth at luncheon. But he asked that his posey of violets that he brought for Lady Elizabeth to be given to her. However, when Lady Elizabeth still did not show for dinner time—her relaying via her Ladies Maid that she will take a dinner tray in her room due to her feeling ill—Lord Duncan decides to take matters into his own hands, literally.

Lord Duncan heads to the kitchens and lifts Lady Elizabeth's food tray out of a maid servant's hands, and he heads to Lady Elizabeth's bed chamber suite's sitting room with him—him having the foresight to ask that a similar tray of food be prepared for him and brought up as well.

Even though Lord Duncan eschews dining with his soon to be Blount family Sussex in-laws, in favoring of dining with his love Lady Elizabeth, he had still kept his wits about him. Lord Duncan had made his excuses—him not actually stating that he will dine with Lady Elizabeth alone, in her bed chamber suite. Lord Duncan has a healthy appreciation for his soon to be brother-in-law Lord Christian Blount Earl of Sussex's sense of propriety with regards to his sister Lady Elizabeth.

Lord Duncan knocks on Lady Elizabeth's bed chamber suite door in the Sussex Hall Dower House. Though he has not been inside her bed chamber suite yet, Lord Duncan knowing its location is just one way his eagerness for his soon to be bride is evidenced.