I should like things to be simple, and to just _happen_." "But, Katy, you can't do it like that.

It will all get into a snarl if there is no planning beforehand or rehearsals; it would be confused and horrid." "I don't see why it would be confused if there were nothing to confuse.
Please not be vexed; but I always have hated the ordinary kind of wedding, with its fuss and worry and so much of everything, and just like all the other weddings, and the bride looking tired to death, and nobody enjoying it a bit.

I'd like mine to be different, and more--more--real.

I don't want any show or processing about, but just to have things nice and pretty, and all the people I love and who love me to come to it, and nothing cut and dried, and nobody tired, and to make it a sort of dear, loving occasion, with leisure to realize how dear it is and what it all means.

Don't you think it would really be nicer in that way ?" "Well, yes, as you put it, and 'viewed from the higher standard,' as Miss Inches would say, perhaps it would.