[He laughs] Sorry, I'm sorry! I won't stop again, I promise. No need for violence, I'm almost at the end.
So when the lights came back on again, everyone in the room could see that there was one small difference. The bride was still frozen in place, but... in place of where her signature should have been on the parchment, there was a large, ugly ink splotch! She had hesitated above it with her quill too long, you see. Right then, a maid called out: "That's a bad omen, for sure! You should reconsider this marriage!" And she walked up to the podium, past the shocked couple-to-be, tore the parchment from its' binding, scrunched it up and threw it in the bin! Quick as you please.
This was the moment our young man had been waiting for! The maid was in fact a friend of his, and they had snuck into the wedding disguised as serving maids together. While all the attention was on his friend, he snuck up to his beloved and took her gently by the hand, as a maid might take her lady away from the scene of a scandal. Our young lady had not recognised him in the room earlier, dressed as he was, but the instant he appeared by her side she realised what was happening. So they fled. The guards gave chase moments later, but they were too slow! The young man had come prepared this time. He had planned an escape route and arranged to have a friend waiting at the gates with a car, ready to go. And so they made good their escape.
The happy ending to this story, however, is not that they escaped from the wedding. It is that, on the night at the opera house, the young man had not been the only person to be enchanted with the young lady's performance. In the audience had also been a very important man-- the head of a well-known music school in another country across the sea, famous for producing talented musicians. A few days before her wedding, the young lady received a letter from him, in which he wrote that he would like to offer her a place at his music school-- and a scholarship. All expenses paid. At long last, her talent had been recognised by the world.
The young man encouraged her to go-- after all, he said, he would wait, but dreams did not. So they parted at the airport that same day, but not before finally sharing love's first kiss and exchanging a promise that until they could meet again and be married, they would always be in each other's hearts.
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So when the lights came back on again, everyone in the room could see that there was one small difference. The bride was still frozen in place, but... in place of where her signature should have been on the parchment, there was a large, ugly ink splotch! She had hesitated above it with her quill too long, you see. Right then, a maid called out: "That's a bad omen, for sure! You should reconsider this marriage!" And she walked up to the podium, past the shocked couple-to-be, tore the parchment from its' binding, scrunched it up and threw it in the bin! Quick as you please.
This was the moment our young man had been waiting for! The maid was in fact a friend of his, and they had snuck into the wedding disguised as serving maids together. While all the attention was on his friend, he snuck up to his beloved and took her gently by the hand, as a maid might take her lady away from the scene of a scandal. Our young lady had not recognised him in the room earlier, dressed as he was, but the instant he appeared by her side she realised what was happening. So they fled. The guards gave chase moments later, but they were too slow! The young man had come prepared this time. He had planned an escape route and arranged to have a friend waiting at the gates with a car, ready to go. And so they made good their escape.
The happy ending to this story, however, is not that they escaped from the wedding. It is that, on the night at the opera house, the young man had not been the only person to be enchanted with the young lady's performance. In the audience had also been a very important man-- the head of a well-known music school in another country across the sea, famous for producing talented musicians. A few days before her wedding, the young lady received a letter from him, in which he wrote that he would like to offer her a place at his music school-- and a scholarship. All expenses paid. At long last, her talent had been recognised by the world.
The young man encouraged her to go-- after all, he said, he would wait, but dreams did not. So they parted at the airport that same day, but not before finally sharing love's first kiss and exchanging a promise that until they could meet again and be married, they would always be in each other's hearts.