Indeed, Elmira kept her head well down that he might not; but he asked if he might call and see her, and she said yes, and the next Wednesday evening was mentioned, that day being Thursday.

Then she fluttered up the Granby street to Imogen and Sarah Lawson's with her mother's wedding silk, and Lawrence Prescott rode back to Upham.

Much he would have liked to linger and take Elmira back as she had come, or else drive over for her later with a chaise, but she had refused.
"Imogen and Sarah can have one of their neighbors' horses and wagons whenever they like," said she, "and they will carry me home if I want them to." A strange maidenly shyness of her own bliss and happiness, which she longed to repeat, was upon her.

She had not told Lawrence what her errand in Granby was.

The truth was that she had planned her new gown because Lawrence had come home, and she was anxious to wear it to meeting in the hope that he might admire her in it.