"Thank you," said Gay, heartily. "It's some fun to have an uncle like you."
"Thank you," said the General, much pleased with this flattery.
"Wouldn't it be a good thing to telegraph to Sarah?" said May, thoughtfully.
"I think it would," the General said, dryly.
Miss Linn left the room when the twins did, leaving the two gentlemen to feast their eyes upon the pretty picture of domesticity made by Miss Celia at her needlework.
On the way to the telegraph office May said:
"The minister likes Aunt Celia almost as well as Uncle Harold does."
"The boys say he's going to marry her," said Gay, coolly.
"Uncle Harold will feel dreadfully! He wants to marry her himself," May asserted, so boldly, that one would have said she was in the General's confidence.