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Tom had gone out to the telephone in the hall. Mrs. White and Mrs. Brownlie advised the others to leave off the decorating until the next day, as it would be best to get the house quiet. "Every shock has a nervous reaction," explained Mrs. Brownlie in dismissing her guests thus suddenly, "and it will be best to keep him quiet until the doctor comes."
Dorothy felt some embarrassment in facing a room filled with those she considered critical spectators, for the best society of all the Birchlands, as well as cultured persons from Ferndale near by, had come to the entertainment. The Brownlie girls played the violins.
He laughed with all the girls, and had plenty of jollity left for the boys he was considered an "all-around good fellow." Naturally, Dorothy felt at ease with him, but Edith Brownlie made no pretense of hiding her intentions she wanted to be in a picture with Tom. Agnes Sinclair, considered the richest girl in Ferndale, proposed "doing a picture" with Ned "The Maiden All Forlorn!"
"Oh, do hurry along," interrupted Eva Brownlie. "We are all waiting for you, Dorothy. We were worried to death for fear something else dreadful might have happened." Eva surely looked like an angel. She was entirely in white, her hair hanging loosely over her shoulders, with a band of gold, in Roman style, confining it at her brow.
"Yes, Aunt Winnie said so," replied Dorothy. "I guess most of the Birchland ladles help with this benefit. Mrs. Brownlie has offered her house." "The lady with the fluffy-haired daughters?" asked Tom. "Yes, the twins," said Dorothy. "Eva and Edith Brownlie are considered the very prettiest girls around." "Oh, are they?" remarked Tom in seeming earnestness.
And how soon the small sprigs of green were twined into long, soft garlands! "I'll keep tally," proffered Edith Brownlie, glad to escape the more certain duty of tying the cords about the boughs. For an hour all worked and chatted gaily, the boys continually "betting against bets," while the girls would complain that too much conversation interfered with the progress of the race.
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