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After the service, children looked for eggs in the courtyard while adults lined up for the buffet - ham, pickles, salad, biscuits, champagne - on the terrace. I talked to a woman visiting from Memphis, who was born in the Seychelles, and a young man from Chennai studying genetics at the University of Miami Medical School. There were two couples from England, who said that they had come for a wedding.

"What about the one back home?" I asked them.

"We're happy to miss it," one of the men said.

The bishop stood to the side, blowing his nose.

"Sorry," he said, "it's the incense."