Anyhow, he was invited to their home, and he stayed another four days after the meetings were over.
The next thing they knew here at the house, Grandma Anderson had a telegram that he was going to be married to Miss Madge Desmond, and would they please send him some things he wanted, and he was going on a wedding trip and would bring his bride home in about a month.
It was just as sudden as that.

And surprising!--Nurse says a thunderclap out of a clear blue sky couldn't have astonished them more.

Father was almost thirty years old at that time, and he'd never cared a thing for girls, nor paid them the least little bit of attention.

So they supposed, of course, that he was a hopeless old bachelor and wouldn't ever marry.

He was bound up in his stars, even then, and was already beginning to be famous, because of a comet he'd discovered.