"What was there to wait for?
They were old enough to know their own minds, he was well able to support a wife, and had a home ready for her.

It needed some improvements to be sure, but they could be made all the better with Maud there to give her opinion and advice." "But she must have time to prepare her trousseau," said young Mrs.
Dinsmore.
"I have just been coaxing her out of that notion," laughed Dick, regarding his promised wife with admiring eyes.

"I want her, and the wedding finery can be attended to somewhat later.

I don't think anything could be prettier or more becoming than the dress she wore at Cousin Rosie's wedding, and why can't she be married in that ?" "Why, it would do, I suppose!" exclaimed Mrs.Dinsmore.

"It is very pretty and becoming, and, with a bridal veil added, would make a suitable and handsome wedding dress." "A wedding dress?
Who is going to be married now ?" cried a girlish voice, and Sydney and Walter were seen coming up the steps.