She had it straight from Julia Melson that they cost three hundred dollars apiece at Celeste's, but she says they didn't look it.

I'm glad you decided not to be a bridesmaid; that shade of salmon-pink wouldn't have suited you." Mrs.Peniston delighted in discussing the minutest details of festivities in which she had not taken part.

Nothing would have induced her to undergo the exertion and fatigue of attending the Van Osburgh wedding, but so great was her interest in the event that, having heard two versions of it, she now prepared to extract a third from her niece.

Lily, however, had been deplorably careless in noting the particulars of the entertainment.

She had failed to observe the colour of Mrs.Van Osburgh's gown, and could not even say whether the old Van Osburgh Sevres had been used at the bride's table: Mrs.Peniston, in short, found that she was of more service as a listener than as a narrator.
"Really, Lily, I don't see why you took the trouble to go to the wedding, if you don't remember what happened or whom you saw there.