The food with which our good hostess Margarida had supplied us afforded a tolerable supper, with something over for breakfast.

Margarida spent half an hour at the party in her wheelchair as guests ate pizza and drank champagne, before returning to her bed.

Margarida said: "It was an amazing day, everything went perfectly." One of the couple's eight guests baked a cake for the occasion.

"But I may break my neck, and then what will become of my poor Margarida?" cried our guide.