CHAPTER III.
THE FIRST WEDDING IN THE FAMILY.
The great job of the cake-making over, a sense of leisure settled on the house.

There seemed nothing left to be done which need put any one out of his or her way particularly.

Katy had among her other qualities a great deal of what is called "forehandedness." To leave things to be attended to at the last moment in a flurry and a hurry would have been intolerable to her.

She firmly believed in the doctrine of a certain wise man of our own day who says that to push your work before you is easy enough, but to pull it after you is very hard indeed.
All that winter, without saying much about it,--for Katy did not "do her thinking outside her head,"-- she had been gradually making ready for the great event of the spring.

Little by little, a touch here and a touch there, matters had been put in train, and the result now appeared in a surprising ease of mind and absence of confusion.