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`` A fortnight longer , '' I said to myself , `` and Tardif will know where she is ; then I can take measures for her tranquillity and safety in the future . '' It was well for me that I had slept during my passage , for I had little sleep during that night . Twice I was aroused by the voice of Captain Carey at my door , inquiring what the London time was , and if I could rely upon my watch not having stopped . At four o'clock he insisted upon everybody in the house getting up . The ceremony was to be solemnized at seven , for the mail-steamer from Jersey to England was due in Guernsey at nine , and there were no other means of quitting the island later in the day . Under these circumstances there could be no formal wedding-breakfast , a matter not much to be regretted . There would not be too much time , so Johanna said , for the bride to change her wedding-dress at her own house for a suitable travelling-costume , and the rest of the day would be our own .