"You might give your ideas first." "My ideas are not very distinct.

It's only lately that I have begun to think about it at all, there has been so much to do.

I'd like to have you have a beautiful dress and a great many wedding-presents and everything as pretty as can be, but not so many bridesmaids as Cecy, because there is always such a fuss in getting them nicely up the aisle in church and out again,--that is as far as I've got.

But so long as you are pleased, and it goes off well, I don't care exactly how it is managed." "Then, since you are in such an accommodating frame of mind, it seems a good time to break my views to you.

Don't be shocked, Clovy; but, do you know, I don't want to be married in church at all, or to have any bridesmaids, or anything arranged for beforehand particularly.