here, they will esteem it a delight to live in your midst."

"And I don't believe they can help it," said Grace. "I am sure everybody
who knows Grandma Elsie, mamma, and papa--not to mention all the other
dear people--loves them and their pleasant society."

"In all of which I am sure you are quite right, Gracie," said Evelyn.

"I, too," said Lulu. "But now let us hear the plans for the wedding."

"They are yet to be made," laughed Rosie.

"You will want a grand one?" Lulu said in a tone of mingled assertion
and inquiry.

"Not so very," Rosie answered with a slight shake of her pretty head. "I
think only the relatives and most intimate friends. They alone will make
quite a party, you know. I'll want some bridesmaids. You'll be one, Lu,
won't you? Unless you fear the truth of the old saying, 'Twice a
bridesmaid never a bride.'"

"Pooh! what difference need that make?" returned Lulu; "since I don't
intend ever to marry."

"You don't?" exclaimed Rosie.

"No; for there is not another man in the world whom I could love half so
dearly as I love my father."

"Oh, well! that is only because you and the right one haven't happened