id of
honour were chosen also; with the understanding that they should all
wear the same dresses worn as Rosie's attendants.

"And, of course, you will wear yours, Maud," said Laura Howard. "It is
lovely and very becoming, and the shade so delicate that I should think
it would do almost, if not quite, as well as if it were white."

"It is very pretty, and as becoming as any I own," Maud said with a
slight smile. "I haven't time to buy another, and, if one's bridegroom
is all right, it doesn't really matter whether the wedding dress is
perfectly white or not."

"Certainly not," laughed Dick. "I should rather by far marry the right
woman in a black calico than the wrong one in the handsomest of white
satins; even with Brussels or point lace on it in abundance."

"Well, then, I may feel entirely easy," Maud said, echoing his laugh,
"for I shall certainly be better and more appropriately attired than in
a black dress, or calico of any colour."

"Of course you will," said Grace, "I think that dress of yours is lovely
and extremely becoming. No one need be ashamed of such a wedding dress
as that."

"And I am determined that she shall have a lovely wedding," said Mrs.
Sue Dinsmore; "as much like what I have been told Sister Elsie's was as
possible. The house shall be trimmed with abundance of flowers, and the
bride and groom shall stand in the very same spot that their
predecessors did; and I dare say the refreshments will be pretty nearly
a reproduction of what were served that evening; as nearly as I can
manage it, at all events."

"It really won't matter if there are some added luxuries, my dear," her
husband remarked in a jesting tone, and with a twinkle of fun in his
eye.

"No, I presume not; it will be better to err on that side than on the
other," she returned demurely. "I mean, however, to make up to poor Maud
for the lack of a new wedding dress; at least so far as I can."

"As I do," said Mrs. Travilla, smiling kindly upon the expectant bride.

"And it is only the pressure of Dick's haste--the lack of time for
it--that keeps her brothers from providing her with as handsome a
wedding outfit as could be desired," remarked Chester, looking slightly
annoyed and hurt.

"Yes, Chester, we all know that," a chorus of voices exclaimed, his
Uncle Dinsmore adding: "And as we are all relatives or connections, it
really matters very little. Dick may be thankful--and I don't in the
least doubt that he is--to get Maud,