often spoke appreciatively of Mart's kindness.

Anne's marriage took place in mid-September. It was a much more
formal and elaborate affair than Cherry's had been, because, as
Anne explained, "Frenny's people have been so generous about
giving him up, you know. After all, he's the last of the Littles;
all the others are Folsoms and Randalls. And I want them to
realize that he is marrying a gentlewoman!"

The older Littles and all the Folsoms and Randalls came to the
wedding, self-respecting, thrifty people who were, for the most
part, as Alix summarized it, "buying little homes on the
installment plan in desirable residential districts of Oakland and
Berkeley." There were bright-faced school teachers, in dark plaid
silk waists, and young matrons in carefully planned colour schemes
of brown and gray; and they all told Alix and Cherry about the
family, the members who were daughters of the Revolution, and the
members who belonged to the Society of the Daughters of Officers
of the Civil War.

Cherry and Alix went upstairs after the ceremony as Alix and Anne
had done a year ago, but there was deep relief and amusement in
their mood to-day, and it was with real pleasure in the closer
intimacy that the little group gathered about the fire that night.

After that life went on serenely, and it was only occasionally
that the girls were reminded that Cherry was a married woman with
a husband expecting her shortly to return to him. When she and
Alix took part in the village fairs and bazaars, Alix was still a
little thrilled to see their names in print, "Miss Strickland and