The two old sisters driving home met and passed many young couples on the country road.
"If they don't look out I shall run over some of them fellars an' girls," said Imogen.

"I don't b'lieve Elmira has ever had anybody waitin' on her, do you, Sarah ?" "Never heard of anybody," replied Sarah.

"Well, anyhow, she's goin' to have a real handsome dress out of that silk." "Yes, she is," said Imogen, and just then from before the great plunging feet of her horse a pair of young lovers sprang with a laugh, having seen nothing of team nor the old sisters nor yet of the little side lamps of happiness they bore, in the great dazzling circle of their own.
Elmira finished her dress Saturday.

She had sat up nearly two nights stitching on it, but nobody would have dreamed it when she came down out of her chamber Sunday morning all ready for meeting.

Her mother was sitting in the parlor beside a window, with her Bible on her knees.