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I think the engagement was announced before he was received into the church. The preparations for the marriage went on. It became obvious within a very short time that the preparations for the marriage were going to be the preparations for some marriage. It was going to be the biggest thing that Albany had ever seen. Whose idea that this should be the most magnificent marriage, I don't know. Certainly it wasn't Mrs. Smith's. Certainly it wasn't Mrs. Warner's - John Warner's mother. She took it all very well indeed. People said, “That's the way a lady acts when something like this occurs. She just carries on.” But certainly it wasn't her idea that it should be a big ostentatious wedding to which everybody in the world was to be invited, but it was somebody's idea. I never have known whose it was.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was Al Smith's own idea. It was not that he wanted to make a show, but he adored Emily. He knew she was the best of the family. He knew his boys didn't amount to much. He knew that Emily and Catherine, the two girls, were the best and that Emily was the superior of the two. He was very proud of her, very proud of her intelligence, of her good looks and way of getting on. He was very fond of John Warner. He thought she was making a fine marriage. He was entirely satisfied about everything because John had been converted. I think