`` It will go to its own place in due time and that you may tie to , '' said Susan dourly , shaking out her raddled bones and going to her oven . `` I suppose my plunking down like that has shaken my cake so that it will be as heavy as lead . '' But the cake was not heavy . It was all a bride 's cake should be , and Susan iced it beautifully . Next day she and Rilla worked all the forenoon , making delicacies for the wedding-feast , and as soon as Miranda phoned up that her father was safely off everything was packed in a big hamper and taken down to the Pryor house . Joe soon arrived in his uniform and a state of violent excitement , accompanied by his best man , Sergeant Malcolm Crawford . There were quite a few guests , for all the Manse and Ingleside folk were there , and a dozen or so of Joe 's relatives , including his mother , `` Mrs. Dead Angus Milgrave , '' so called , cheerfully , to distinguish her from another lady whose Angus was living . Mrs. Dead Angus wore a rather disapproving expression , not caring over-much for this alliance with the house of Whiskers-on-the-moon . So Miranda Pryor was married to Private Joseph Milgrave on his last leave . It should have been a romantic wedding but it was not . There were too many factors working against romance , as even Rilla had to admit . In the first place , Miranda , in spite of her dress and veil , was such a flat-faced , commonplace , uninteresting little bride . In the second place , Joe cried bitterly all through the ceremony , and this vexed Miranda unreasonably . Long afterwards she told Rilla , `` I just felt like saying to him then and there , ` If you feel so bad over having to marry me you do n't have to . ' But it was just because he was thinking all the time of how soon he would have to leave me . '' In the third place , Jims , who was usually so well-behaved in public , took a fit of shyness and contrariness combined and began to cry at the top of his voice for `` Willa . '' Nobody wanted to take him out , because everybody wanted to see the marriage , so Rilla who was a bridesmaid , had to take him and hold him during the ceremony . In the fourth place , Sir Wilfrid Laurier took a fit . Sir Wilfrid was entrenched in a corner of the room behind Miranda 's piano . During his seizure he made the weirdest , most unearthly noises .
He would begin XXXXX a series of choking , spasmodic sounds , continuing into a gruesome gurgle , and ending up with a strangled howl .
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