[Miss Billy's Decision by Eleanor H. Porter]@TWC D-Link bookMiss Billy's Decision CHAPTER XXII 7/17
I don't expect to.
Of course, when we have a house--I'm not sure, then, though, that I sha'n't dress up the maid and order her to receive the calls and go to the pink teas, while I make her puddings," she finished saucily, as Billy began to laugh again. The bride and groom, as was proper, were, soon after their arrival, invited to dine at both William's and Billy's.
Then, until Marie's "At Homes" should begin, the devoted couple settled down to quiet days by themselves, with only occasional visits from the family to interrupt--"interrupt" was Bertram's word, not Marie's.
Though it is safe to say it was not far different from the one Cyril used--in his thoughts. Bertram himself, these days, was more than busy.
Besides working on Miss Winthrop's portrait, and on two or three other commissions, he was putting the finishing touches to four pictures which he was to show in the exhibition soon to be held by a prominent Art Club of which he was the acknowledged "star" member.
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