`` Anyway , nobody will notice you because everyone will be looking at the bride . Aunt Olivia will make a lovely bride . Just think how sweet she 'll look in a white silk dress and a floating veil . '' `` She says she is going to have the ceremony performed out here in the orchard under her own tree , '' said the Story Girl . `` Wo n't that be romantic ? It almost makes me feel like getting married myself . '' `` What a way to talk , '' rebuked Felicity , `` and you only fifteen . '' `` Lots of people have been married at fifteen , '' laughed the Story Girl . `` Lady Jane Gray was . '' `` But you are always saying that Valeria H. Montague 's stories are silly and not true to life , so that is no argument , '' retorted Felicity , who knew more about cooking than about history , and evidently imagined that the Lady Jane Gray was one of Valeria 's titled heroines . The wedding was a perennial source of conversation among us in those days ; but presently its interest palled for a time in the light of another quite tremendous happening . One Saturday night Peter 's mother called to take him home with her for Sunday . She had been working at Mr. James Frewen 's , and Mr. Frewen was driving her home . We had never seen Peter 's mother before , and we looked at her with discreet curiosity . She was a plump , black-eyed little woman , neat as a pin , but with a rather tired and care-worn face that looked as if it should have been rosy and jolly . Life had been a hard battle for her , and I rather think that her curly-headed little lad was all that had kept heart and spirit in her . Peter went home with her and returned Sunday evening . We were in the orchard sitting around the Pulpit Stone , where we had , according to the custom of the households of King , been learning our golden texts and memory verses for the next Sunday School lesson . Paddy , grown sleek and handsome again , was sitting on the stone itself , washing his jowls . Peter joined us with a very queer expression on his face .
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