After dinner the clouds rolled away , and the sun came joyously and gloriously out . This , we thought , was a good omen . Felicity opined that it would n't have cleared up if it was the Judgment Day . Nevertheless , we dressed ourselves carefully , and the girls put on their white dresses . Sara Ray came up , still crying , of course . She increased our uneasiness by saying that her mother believed the Enterprise paragraph , and was afraid that the end of the world was really at hand . `` That 's why she let me come up , '' she sobbed . `` If she had n't been afraid I do n't believe she would have let me come up . But I 'd have died if I could n't have come . And she was n't a bit cross when I told her I had gone to the magic lantern show . That 's an awful bad sign . I had n't a white dress , but I put on my white muslin apron with the frills . '' `` That seems kind of queer , '' said Felicity doubtfully . `` You would n't put on an apron to go to church , and so it does n't seems as if it was proper to put it on for Judgment Day either . '' `` Well , it 's the best I could do , '' said Sara disconsolately . `` I wanted to have something white on . It 's just like a dress only it has n't sleeves . '' `` Let 's go into the orchard and wait , '' said the Story Girl . `` It 's one o'clock now , so in another hour we 'll know the worst . We 'll leave the front door open , and we 'll hear the big clock when it strikes two . ''
No better plan being suggested , we betook ourselves to the orchard , and sat on the boughs XXXXX Uncle Alec 's tree because the grass was wet .
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