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    The William Trevor Reader: “The Wedding in the Garden”

    by Adam O’Fallon Price Mar 21, 2023 3 minutes

    “The Wedding in the Garden” is another elegant one that follows more or less the usual formula. Christopher Congreve is the scion of an upper-class hotelier family. Dervla is the dining-room maid. Through their early adolescences, marked by Christopher’s coming and going to boarding school, they grow enamored of each other, eventually professing their love and carrying on a romance in Room 14. Mr. and Mrs. Congreve somehow discover the tryst and predictably object, threatening

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