isgusted in my life. When I grow
up and anybody proposes to me he will have to be a good deal more
flowery and eloquent than that, I can tell you, if he wants me to
listen to him.

I left Jacky peeking still and I went to bed. After a long time Aunt
Tommy came up to my room and sat down on my bed in the moonlight.

"You dear blessed Elizabeth!" she said.

"It's all right then, is it?" I asked.

"Yes, it is all right, thanks to you, dearie. We are to be married in
October and somebody must be my little flower girl."

"I think Dick will make a splendid husband," I said. "But Aunt Tommy,
you mustn't be too hard on Jacky. He only wanted to help things along,
and it was I who put him up it in the first place."

"You have atoned by going and confessing," said Aunt Tommy with a hug,
"Jacky had no business to put that off on you. I'll forgive him, of
course, but I'll punish him by not letting him know that I will for a
little while. Then I'll ask him to be a page at my wedding."

Well, the wedding came off last week. It was a perfectly gorgeous
affair. Aunt Tommy's dress was a dream--and so was mine, all pink silk
and chiffon and carnations. Jacky made a magnificent page too, in a
suit of white velvet. The wedding cake was four stories high, and Dick
looked perfectly handsome. He kissed me too, right after he kissed
Aunt Tommy.

So everything turned out all right, and I believe Dick would never
have dared to speak up if we hadn't helped things along. But Jacky and
I have decided that we will never meddle in an affair of the kind
again. It is too hard on the nerves.

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