We had meant to drive , of course , since there was no other way of getting there , and equally of course the plan had been abandoned because of the wet weather . `` Mother , '' exclaimed Kate , `` Mary Taylor is going to be married in a fortnight 's time ! She wants Phil and me to go up to Bothwell for the wedding . '' `` What a pity you ca n't go , '' remarked Aunt Jennie placidly . Aunt Jennie was always a placid little soul , with a most enviable knack of taking everything easy . Nothing ever worried her greatly , and when she had decided that a thing was inevitable it did not worry her at all . `` But I am going , '' cried Kate . `` I will go -- I must go . I positively can not let Mary Taylor -- my own beloved Molly -- go and perpetrate matrimony without my being on hand to see it . Yes , I 'm going -- and if Phil has a spark of the old Blair pioneer spirit in her , she 'll go too . '' `` Of course I 'll go if you go , '' I said . Aunt Jennie did not think we were in earnest , so she merely laughed at first , and said , `` How do you propose to go ? Fly -- or swim ? '' `` We 'll drive , as usual , '' said Kate calmly . `` I 'd feel more at home in that way of locomotion . We 'll borrow Jim Nash 's father 's democrat , and take the ponies . We 'll put on old clothes , raincoats , rubber caps and boots , and we 'll start tomorrow . In an ordinary time we could easily do it in six days or less , but this fall we 'll probably need ten or twelve . '' `` You do n't really mean to go , Kate ! '' said Aunt Jennie , beginning to perceive that Kate did mean it .
`` I do , '' said Kate , XXXXX a convincing tone .
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