A Wedding

She rode on a camel amid a train of menservants, maidservants, and their belongings. They had traveled for many days, but now they were almost home. Home—to where this very beautiful young woman had never been before. Was she nervous? Was she scared? She had willingly left her family and friends with only hours to pack and say good-bye. Now she was here in a strange land, to marry a husband she had never heard of or seen before. She wore gold bracelets on her hands and other costly pieces of...