CHAPTER XXX.
Ellen looked at the other girl in a kind of rage of maidenly shame.
"Why have I got to get married, anyway ?" she demanded.

"Isn't there anything in this world besides getting married?
Why do you all talk so about me?
You don't seem so bent on getting married yourself.

If you think so much of marriage, why don't you get married yourself, and let me alone ?" "Nobody wants to marry me that I know of," replied Abby, quite simply.

Then she, too, blazed out.

"Get married!" she cried.