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While he was away he called her up each evening on the telephone , managing to send her somehow , over the wire , a sense of his nearness and his devotion . Altogether those few days brought to Georgiana an experience unique in a lifetime , and one which she would gladly have prolonged . Then , it seemed quite suddenly , it was Wednesday morning , and the sun was shining brilliantly in at Georgiana 's windows over a thousand roof-tops . The marriage was to occur at noon , because , for a bride whose bridal finery was limited to a little frock of dark blue silk and whose traveling attire was the plainest of ready-to-wear suits and simplest of small hats , without furs or furbelows of any sort , it seemed the only fitting hour . It had been arranged that the two essential witnesses to the ceremony should be two close friends of Doctor Craig 's , an elderly couple whose name , if the Warnes had known , was one of the old names of the city , standing for the bluest of blue Knickerbocker blood , though for only moderate wealth and for no ostentation whatever . Georgiana had begged that no other guests be asked , being anxious , on her father 's account , to have the whole affair over with the least possible agitation for him . To this Doctor Craig had cordially agreed .