Her fingers clung to him.

But her hair hid her face, and on the other side of her Peggy Blackton was laughing and talking and crying by turns.
As they entered the bungalow, Aldous whispered to Joanne: "Will you please go right to your room, dear?
I want to say something to you--alone." When she went up the stair, Peggy caught a signal from her husband.

Aldous remained with them.

In two minutes he told the bewildered and finally delighted Peggy what was going to happen, and as Blackton hustled out for the minister's house he followed Joanne.

She had fastened her door behind her.