They were accustomed to letting her have her budget out.
'And now, of course,' she resumed, taking breath, and chilled a little by their silence, 'now, of course, I want to know about Catherine ?' She regarded them with anxious interrogation.

Rose, still smiling, slowly shook her head.
'What!' cried Mrs.Thornburgh; then, with charming inconsistency, 'Oh, you can't know anything in two days.' 'That's just it,' said Agnes, intervening; 'we can't know anything in two days.

No one ever will know anything about Catherine, if she takes to anybody, till the list minute.' Mrs.Thornburgh's face fell.

'It's very difficult 'when people will be so reserved,' she said, dolefully.
The girls acquiesced, but intimated that they saw no way out of it.
'At any rate we can bring them together,' she broke out, brightening again.

'We can have picnics, you know, and teas, and all that--and watch.