The Eustace Diamonds Chapter LXIX - "I Cannot Do It"

In which the quiet anticipation before a great marriage is disturbed by a young bride’s determined refusal to proceed, casting a shadow over the carefully arranged festivities and troubling even the most hardened of those involved. Amidst the sparkling trousseau and whispered confidences, the strains of conflicted duty and secret despair converge in a household braced for an event that now seems uncertain.