Wilson explained to Uncle Z that he had missed the wedding by a week, and hinted that in any case he would not have been an altogether welcome guest.
Uncle Zortan sighed deeply then proceeded to tell Wilson his life story, which was not a happy tale.
Apparently he attends all bee weddings, as Polly and Billi had warned us, but not with the intention of disrupting the ceremony, he just can't help himself.
It seems that this started when he was a young bee, barely out of his pupa-hood, and engaged to be married. Then at the alter, his fiancée jilted him.
Since then he has lived alone in a grand but now ruined bee hive, surrounded by the finery and food of the wedding feast… and the un-cut wedding cake.
Young bees call his hive Havisham House and taunt him when he emerges, calling him Mad Miss Havisham.
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