CHAPTER IX.
"SOMETHING BLUE" A rainy day followed the lawn fete, such a steady pour that little rivers ran down the window-panes, and the porches had to be abandoned.
But nobody lamented the fact that they were driven indoors.

Rob and Joyce began a game of chess in the library.

Lloyd and Phil turned over the music in the cabinet until they found a pile of duets which they both knew, and began to try them, first to the accompaniment of the piano, then the harp.
Mary, sitting in the hall where she could see both the chess-players and the singers, waited in a state of bliss to be summoned to the sewing-room.

Only that morning it had been discovered that there was enough pink chiffon left, after the bridesmaids' gowns were completed, to make her a dress, and the seamstress was at work upon it now.

So it was a gay, rose-colored world to Mary this morning, despite the leaden skies and pouring rain outside.