ve," Constance said. "See,
this is Jim as Jack Horner, and Babbie as Mother Goose. And look! here's
Jim on a pony--that's at his grandfather's place in Honolulu, He stayed
there a month every year, when he was a little boy, and Mother and
Barbara visited there once. Here we all are, swimming, at Tahoe. And
here's Bab in the dress she wore at her coming-out tea--isn't it dear?
And look! here she is in an old dress of Jim's mother, and see the old
pearls; aren't they lovely? Jim gave them to her when she was twenty."

"Jim was crazy about her then," said Jane.

"_I_ don't think he was," Constance said perversely.

"Oh, Con, you know he was!" Jane protested. "He _was_, too," she added, to
Julia.

"_I_ don't think he was," persisted Constance lightly.

Barbara came in a second later, and again the talk went back to Sally.

"Mother and Aunt Sanna said good-night," reported Barbara, "and Aunt
Sanna said to leave the door between your rooms open, and--oh, yes,
Doctor Studdiford has been teasing Aunt Sanna to stay for a few days,
Miss Page; he says you look as pale as a little ghost!"

"I liked so much to have you call me Julia," was Julia's extremely
tactful answer to this. Barbara, perhaps glad to find her message so
casually dismissed, smiled her prettiest.

"Julia--then!" and Barbara sat down on a bed, and began to roll up her
belt. "Aunt Sanna says she gives Sally and Keith about three months--"
she began.

Two days later, on Sunday, the bride and groom came home. Sally, who
looked particularly well and was quite unashamed, rushed into her
mother's arms, and laughed and cried like a creature possessed. She
kissed all her sisters, and if there was a note of disapproval in her
welcome, she did not get it. Richie having charitably carried off the
somewhat sullen young husband, the bride was presently free to open her
heart to the women of the house.

"It's all so different when you're married, isn't it, Mother?" bubbled
Sally. "Going into hotels and everything--you don't care who looks at
you, you know you've a perfect right to go anywhere with your husband!
Now, that look that Keith just gave me, as he went off with
Richie--_blazing_! Well, it would just have amused me when we were
engaged, but now I know that he's simply wretched with jealousy, and
I'll have to pet him a little and quiet him down! He is a perfect child
about money; he _will_ spend too much on everything, and if we go abroad
I'll simply have to--