A young bride who gets scared...

NEVER has the famous verse that states: "Truth can sometimes be implausible" been so relevant as it is today.
A young lady from the best society, Miss D..., was recently marrying Baron de L... (Out of discretion, we do not wish to disclose their names further.) The wedding took place in one of our great Parisian churches, amidst a large and select crowd. Flowers, music, a sort of light grace spreading over the entire audience like the charming shadow of happiness... It was magnificent! Now, just as the procession was leaving the church, the young bride could not hide the signs of unexpected turmoil and, suddenly abandoning her husband's arm, began to run down the steps and fled.
Luckily, she didn't get far. They reached her, calmed her, and when she regained her composure, she confessed to her interrogators that she had become so frightened because she had read the beginning of the serial currently published by the Petit Journal Illustré and that, upon leaving the church where her wedding had just been celebrated, she had feared she herself would be kidnapped, as Constance Phips had been in M. Gabriel Bernard's novel.
Immediately informed of this little mishap, as extraordinary as it was true, we inquired about the new Baroness de L...
Fortunately, this overly impressionable young woman no longer feels her passing distress, thanks to the affection of those around her and the tender care of her husband. All's well that ends well. But, in case other readers of "The Five Detectives" might be tempted to feel the same irrational anxiety, we wish to reassure them as quickly as possible. This novel is the story of an isolated event and, whatever the adventures the heroine goes through, there is no reason, as we will see later, to tremble excessively over the fate of Constance Phips, the blonde American kidnapped on her wedding day.