Outside you could hear carriage wheels rolling, the beat of horses' hoofs, and voices crying greetings.

"There was a sound of revelry," by day.

Mother came in hurriedly.

She wore her new brown silk, with a lace collar pinned at the throat with the pin that had a brown goldstone setting in it, and her precious ring was on her finger.

She was dainty and pretty enough to have been a bride herself.
She turned Sally around slowly, touching her hair a little and her skirts; then she went to the closet, took out the wedding dress, put the skirt over Sally's head, and she came up through the whiteness, pink and glowing.