I was glad.

I'd seen six weddings that I can remember, all exactly alike--there's nothing to them; but brushing those new carpets, unwrapping nice furniture and placing it, washing pretty new dishes, untying the loveliest gifts and arranging them--THAT was something new in a Bates wedding.

Oh, but I had a splendid time!" George Holt looked at his mother in too great disgust to conceal his feelings.
"ANOTHER gilt-edged scandal gone sky high," he said.

Then he turned to Kate.

"One of the women who worked in your mother's kitchen is visiting here, and she started a great hullabaloo because you were not at the wedding.