Take the guests -- the supper , too , if you can carry it . '' `` We 'll all come back here for supper , '' said Frank , ignoring the sarcasm . `` Come , Mrs. Spencer , let 's make the best of it . '' `` Do you suppose that I am going to David Spencer 's house ? '' said Isabella Spencer violently . `` Oh you MUST come , Mrs. Spencer , '' cried poor Frank desperately . He began to fear that he would lose his bride past all finding in this maze of triple stubbornness . `` Rachel says she wo n't be married at all if you do n't go , too . Think what a talk it will make . You know she will keep her word . '' Isabella Spencer knew it . Amid all the conflict of anger and revolt in her soul was a strong desire not to make a worse scandal than must of necessity be made . The desire subdued and tamed her , as nothing else could have done . `` I will go , since I have to , '' she said icily . `` What ca n't be cured must be endured . Go and tell them . '' Five minutes later the sixty wedding guests were all walking over the fields to the Cove , with the minister and the bridegroom in the front of the procession . They were too amazed even to talk about the strange happening . Isabella Spencer walked behind , fiercely alone . They all crowded into the little room of the house at the Cove , and a solemn hush fell over it , broken only by the purr of the sea-wind around it and the croon of the waves on the shore .
David Spencer gave his daughter away ; but , when the ceremony was concluded , Isabella was the first XXXXX take the girl in her arms .
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