Percy took the card and slowly read:
_Mr. and Mrs. Clarance Voit
Announce the marriage of their daughter
Ameila Louise
to
Professor Paul Strongworth Barstow_
She watched his face but saw no sign. She kissed his forehead and then pointed to the writing, "With Grandma's Compliments," saying, "I do not know what this means, but I thought my boy might be getting too careless, when he fails to read even the wedding announcement of college professors, sent to him by such a good friend as Grandma West may intend to be."
Percy looked into his mother's face as if to read her thoughts.
"I think I understand what you have in mind," he said. "Mr. West has mentioned once or twice that Adelaide was teaching school, but I supposed that she was trying to earn enough to buy her own wedding outfit."
"Perhaps that is true," replied the mother, "and perhaps she is already married or soon to be married; but I thought you ought to know that she had not married Professor Barstow, lest you might allude to it in your letters to Mr. West."