Chapter 5

prepared--four apathetic bridesmaids, and the four acolytes in tights--who have possibly been kindly lent by the Convent for the occasion--in a vacuous row at the back of the scene. Fancy _Manrico_ has forgotten to give them the usual initial brooches, and they feel the wedding is a poky affair, and take no interest in it. _Leonora_ herself is in low spirits--seems to miss the confidant, and to be oppressed with a misgiving that the wedding is not destined to come off. Misgivings on the stage are never thrown away--the wedding _is_ interrupted immediately by a crowd of men, in small sugar-loaf caps, who carry the bridegroom off to fight--whereupon, of course, the Curtain falls.