A very nice appearance they made, all those woven branches and clustered sprays, when they were in place, and Samantha declared for them that,
"They had kept Dab out of mischief all the afternoon."
At an early hour after supper, the guests began to arrive, for Mrs. Kinzer was a woman of too much sense to have night turned into day when she could prevent it. As the stream of visitors steadily poured in, Dab remarked to Jenny Walters:
"We shall have to enlarge the house after all."
"If it were only a dress, now?"
"What then?"
"Why, you could just let out the tucks. I've had to do that with mine."
"Jenny, shake hands with me."
"What for, Dabney?"
"I'm so glad to meet somebody else that's outgrowing something."