"It does sound nice," said Patty, "let's read it."
They read both the plays, and so interested were they in the reading and discussing them that before they knew it the afternoon slipped away, and Pansy Potts came in to announce that the tea was ready.
"Goodness," cried Patty, "I forgot all about it! Come on, girls, we can discuss the play just as well at the table."
"Yes, and better," said Elsie.
Such a shout of exclamation as went up from the Tea Club girls when they saw Patty's table.
"Why didn't you tell us there was to be a wedding?" said Ethel, "and we would have brought presents."
"Is it an African jungle?" said Laura, "or is it only Smith's flower store moved up here bodily?"
"I think it looks like a page out of the Misses' Home Guide" said Polly Stevens. "You ought to have this table photographed, it would take the first prize! But where are we going to eat? Surely you don't expect us to sit down at this Louis XlV. gimcrack?"
"Nonsense," said Patty. "I fixed it up pretty because I thought it would please you. If you don't like it—"
"Oh, we like it," cried Christine Converse, "we love it! We want to take it home with us and put it under a glass case."