Eugenia got the material in Paris for all of them.

I'm at liberty to tell you that much." "Is that the wedding where you are to be maid of honor, Princess ?" asked Grace Campman, one of the girls who had been posing in the plum-tree, and who had followed her down to hear the news.
"Yes," answered Lloyd.

"Is it any wondah that I'm neahly wild with curiosity ?" "Make her tell," urged an excited chorus.

"Just half a day beforehand won't make any difference." "Let's all begin and beg her," suggested Grace.
Lloyd, long used to gaining her own way with Betty by a system of affectionate coaxing hard to resist, turned impulsively to begin the siege to wrest the secret from her, but another reference to the maid of honor by Grace made her pause.

Then she said suddenly, with the well-known princess-like lifting of the head that they all admired: "No, don't tell me, Betty.