“I name and nominate Miss Rosanna Horton, and as her aids and assistants I name and nominate Miss Helen Culver and Miss Elise Hargrave.”
“That is not playing fair at all!” cried Cita. “You know perfectly well that they want us to be married soon.”
Robert shook his head. “Not at all! Our marriage is detrimental to those persons named, insomuch as I shall take you off on a wedding trip, and by so doing shall interfere with the routine of work in your Scout troop. That is a good committee, and I shall trust them. I shall now call them in.”
The three girls were working in the Scout room on the tarleton stockings, filling and tying them. Robert stepped to the door and summoned them. Putting the question before them in the most serious manner, he told them that they were to decide.
“I should think I ought to decide my own wedding day!” cried Cita.
“You don’t seem able to do it,” said Robert. “You have been trying to decide for the last ten days. You see it is a business proposition with me. Perhaps if these good, kind young ladies succeed in fixing a wedding day, say before Christmas, I won’t have to buy you any Christmas present.”
“I don’t want to be married before Christmas,” wailed Cita, looking appealingly at the girls.
Rosanna nodded her head understandingly, and the three girls left the room.
“When will we set it?” asked Helen. “Do they really mean that we are to do so?”
“Tell him we have decided on the fifteenth of February,” said Rosanna. “That is the date she has fixed, but he is such a tease that she has been teasing him in return. That will give her all the time she needs, and she won’t be all tired out. Everyone loves her, and wants to do things for her and, besides, it is going to take weeks to get those rooms fixed. I never saw grandmother so fussy over anything before. She is going clear to New York and is going to take Cita to select hangings, and she has an artist friend selecting pictures; that is, a list for Cita to look over. Grandmother wants every last thing to be Cita’s own selection. And, girls, it is going to be too lovely. What do you think? You know those ceilings are about twenty feet high, and grandmother has had them all lowered with plaster board and beams, so it looks so much cozier. Grandmother is really splendid. I never loved her so much.”