"I suppose she said that just because of Mrs.Greggory's and Tommy Dunn's crutches." "Well, they didn't make a real festive-looking wedding party, you must admit," laughed Cyril; "what with the bridegroom's own arm in a sling, too! But who were they all, anyway ?" "Why, you knew Mrs.Greggory and Alice, of course--and Pete," smiled Marie.

"And wasn't Pete happy?
Billy says she'd have had Pete if she had no one else; that there wouldn't have been any wedding, anyway, if it hadn't been for his telephoning Aunt Hannah that night." "Yes; Will told me." "As for Tommy and the others--most of them were those people that Billy had at her home last summer for a two weeks' vacation--people, you know, too poor to give themselves one, and too proud to accept one from ordinary charity.

Billy's been following them up and doing little things for them ever since--sugarplums and frosting on their cake, she calls it; and they adore her, of course.

I think it was lovely of her to have them, and they did have such a good time! You should have seen Tommy when you played that wedding march for Billy to enter the room.

His poor little face was so transfigured with joy that I almost cried, just to look at him.