"We only hope you'll hold out to the end, Jessie," remarked Katherine in tones of reproach.
"What, leave dear old Wellington and all of you for any ordinary, stupid man? I'd never think of it," cried Jessie.
"I'm not afraid," here put in Edith. "Fickle Jessica may change her mind and her ring half a dozen times before June. Who can tell?"
"I'm not fickle where all of you are concerned, anyhow," answered Jessie reproachfully.
"You're a dear, Jessie," broke in Molly. She never did quite enjoy seeing other people teased.
"Will some one kindlee make for me explanation of the word 'jubilee'?" asked Otoyo Sen, seated cross-legged on a cushion in the very center of the group, like an Oriental story-teller.
"Jubilee?" said Edith. By an unspoken arrangement, it was always left to her to answer such questions. "Why jubilee means a rejoicing, a celebration."
"There will be singing and dancing and feasting greatlee of many days enduring?" asked Otoyo.
"It depends on who's doing the enduring," Edith said, smiling.
"Wellington will be enduring of greatlee much rejoicing," went on the little Japanese. "For Wellington will give jubilee entertainment for fifty years of birthday, perhaps, maybe."