"The dress of the ladies will be noticed much more than yours or mine, but it is only right that men and boys should take pains to be neatly and suitably attired.

Now I think we may follow your mother and sisters and see what they have to show us." The dresses were pronounced by all beautiful, perfect in regard to fit, trimming, and suitability to the occasion on which they were to be worn; very becoming, also, the captain remarked in an aside to his wife; a remark to which she gave a hearty and unqualified assent.
"We'll wear these dresses to Ion to-night, won't we, mamma ?" asked Elsie.
"Oh, no, child!" replied Violet; "the rehearsal will be gone through with in ordinary attire, and these grand dresses kept perfectly fresh for the wedding.

Come, now, we must make haste with the change, for the tea bell will ring presently.

It is well you took a good nap this afternoon, for I fear you are likely to be kept up late." "Probably a little later than usual," said their father, "though, as to-morrow is to be so exciting a day, I intend to bring you all home in pretty good season; that you may be able to take such a night's rest as will give you the needed strength to go through the trying ordeal." "There, papa," laughed Grace, "you talk as if we were all going to be married." "Dear me, but I am glad we are not!" exclaimed Lucilla, "and that I am not the one that is." "Quite a lucid remark, my child," laughed her father.

"But now I will leave you to make the necessary changes in your dress that you may be ready for a drive on leaving the tea table." They hastened to obey, helping each other and laughing and chatting merrily as they worked.