" All eyes turned to Mrs. Hazeltine.
"Aunt Marcia, how did you do it?"
"I am sure I can't tell you. I think I am the one most apt to be
surprised."
"You'll have to tell," said Carl, turning to his uncle.
"Well, if you must know, it was when she said '_Yes._'"
Everybody laughed, and his wife said majestically: "My dear, you are
very absurd." But she did not appear seriously displeased.
"I don't understand," remarked Helen; "what did she say yes _to_?" and
this of course brought down the house.
After supper was over they danced and played games till, all too soon,
the evening was over.
"Good times never last quite long enough," Louise said, as her uncle
was arranging for the farewell Virginia reel.
"I thought they lasted the year around," remarked Mr. Caruth, who
stood beside her.
"I mean special ones," she answered gayly, as she went off with him to
take her place, leaving Ikey rather crestfallen.
The others had quickly paired off: Carl and Dora, Aleck and Bess, Jim
and Elsie, Will and Constance. Elsie called "Tucker" aggravatingly as
she passed.
"Anyway, I didn't want to dance with her," he said to himself.
Miss Hazeltine was playing for them, and Aunt Marcia sat with Miss
Brown looking on; Aunt Zelie stood in the doorway.
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