This whole chapter is dedicated to describing the traditional French, multi-day long wedding festivities.
Aside from describing how the guests arrived, what they wore, and what was served to eat, we see Emma and Charles' first romantic interactions.
The next day, however, he seemed a different man. It was he who gave the impression of having lost his virginity overnight: the bride made not the slightest sign that could be taken to betray anything at all. - But Charles hid nothing. He addressed her as 'ma femme,' using the intimate 'tu,' kept asking everyone where she was and looking for her everywhere, and often took her out into the yard, where he could be glimpsed through the trees with his arm around her waist, leaning over her as they walked, his head rumpling the yoke of her bodice.It seems that Charles is finally smitten, but Emma nonplused. The completed opposite of what one tends to expect.
My conclusion is that Emma is either very introverted or that she doesn't love Charles!
How very sad for both of them.
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