him. But I think this little girl business ought to be tended to right
away."

"Rains and gossip and new girls and first violets. I declare, it _is_
spring, David. 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