And Nanny Ainslee is back. Of course, I'll see about
that little girl. You tell her I'm coming to call on her the day after
tomorrow. Tell her I'll come up the woodsy side of her garden and I'll
be wearing my pink sunbonnet and third best gingham apron."
Grandma took up a pan of fresh light biscuit, rolled them up in a crisp
linen cloth and started out with David.
Outdoors she stopped and breathed deeply.
"I declare, David, I was almost lonesome before you stepped in but now
I feel--well, spring mad or something. I do believe we'll have a
wedding soon and a real old-fashioned springtime."
CHAPTER VII
THE WEDDING
Grandma Wentworth got her wedding but not just the kind of a wedding
she had expected.
"Though, when you stop to think of it, an elopement is about as proper
a spring happening as I know of. It's due mostly to this weather. We
had too much rain in April and nothing but sweet sunshine and mad
moonlight ever since."
Most Green Valley courtships and weddings are conducted in a more or
less public and leisurely fashion and elopements are rare. Green
Valley was at first inclined to be a little shocked and resentful about
this performance. Weddings do not happen every day and Green Valley
was so accustomed to knowing weeks beforehand what the bride was going
to wear, and how many of the two sets of relatives were to be there,
and who was giving presents and what, and what the refreshments were
going to cost, and just how much more this was than what the bride's
mother could afford to spend, that there was a little murmur of
astonishment, resentment even, when it was found that just a bare, bald
marriage had been perpetrated in the old town.
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