She had been misinformed.

Those things could not be true.
"Shouldn't you be in here helping Aunt Ollie ?" asked George's voice from the front step where he seated himself with his pipe.
"Yes, in a minute," said Kate, rising.

"Did you see who came ?" "No.

I was out doing the morning work.

Who was it ?" he asked.
"Nancy Ellen and Robert," she answered.
He laughed hilariously: "Brought them in a hurry, didn't we?
Why didn't they come in ?" "They came to tell me," said Kate, slowly, "that if I had married you yesterday, as I did, that they felt so disgraced that I wasn't to come to their home again." "'Disgraced ?'" he cried, his colour rising.