Nuptial

The bride and bridegroom retired as usual, when of a sudden the most wild and piercing cries were heard from the nuptial chamber.

It was then the custom, to prevent any coarse pleasantry which old times perhaps admitted, that the key of the nuptial chamber should be entrusted to the bridesman.

The grand new space in a restored 1920s building a few blocks north is the city's bid to make New York a destination for "nuptial tourists" from all over the world.

To prevent the erosion of his own authority, Basil is persuaded to re-enact his father's crime — to unflower the servant girl on her nuptial night.