Josette stirs.
"I must have been dreaming."
"I was wearing Grandmother's dress and carrying a bouquet of lilies of the valley. It felt so real."
Josette goes to Grandmother's room in the old mansion.
"I haven't entered this room in ages, but here is the dress, just as I remember it."
"I used to come to this room and look at it when I was a girl. Grandmother once told me that I must wear this dress when I married."
"It's gotten yellow with age, and it's a little dusty. I wonder if I will ever walk down the aisle in this dress."
"Grandmother looked so beautiful in her wedding pictures. I loved to look at them and think of what she was like when she was a young bride."
"The dress and veil are old-fashioned, but I have always loved old things."
"'I promise to love and cherish you all the days of my life.'"
"I'm being foolish, pretending this way. Perhaps the man waiting for me is only in my dreams."
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