Finally, an AU version of the Busman's Honeymoon wedding night and after sequence in which everyone (or almost everyone) ends up fairly cheerful.

( What hath night to do with sleep? )

Great. Having come up with that subject line I am now thinking of "I will be with you on your wedding night" and an entirely unanticipated crossover. But I digress.

It struck me - now over a month ago, the tale has been delayed in the telling - that I had been cruel to Harriet on her wedding night, and I had likewise been cruel to Peter, but there was a third person at Talboys that night (not counting the corpse, who has suffered enough) and that I ought to be cruel to him, too. I have also been cruel to all three of them at once on one occasion (in collaboration), but Bunter has so far got away without vomiting, and that must be remedied.

‘My God!’ said Peter ... ‘do you realise what will happen to us if you die of neglect and starvation?’*

( Cut for fic )

The fault of antisoppist again, with her comment on the last: "Will the poor three of them ever get a decent night's sleep?"

One possible answer follows...

( With the sheets turned down )

I’ve been cruel to Harriet, so I felt it was about time I was cruel to Peter.

Their return to Talboys was remarkable only for Peter’s observing that if one was going to be sick on one’s wedding night one might just as well have done it between Southampton and Le Havre.

( Parsnip wine )