I shall get a new silk an' a mantilla for Rose, an' not be beholden to nobody, if I have to sell the spoons I had when I was married." "I don't s'pose they have much to do with," said Sylvia.

She began to gradually edge past her sister.
"Of course they haven't; I know that jest as well as you do.

But if Charlotte ain't goin' to get married she don't want any weddin'-gown an' mantilla, an' she won't ever get married.

She let Thomas Payne slip, an' there ain't nobody else I can think of for her.

If she ain't goin' to want weddin'-clothes, I don't see why she an' her mother would be any poorer for givin' hers away.