For the next three months Jill and I were wild . It was just like reading a serial story to watch Dick and Aunt Tommy . One day when Dick came Aunt Tommy was n't quite ready to come down , so Jill and I went in to the parlour to help things along . We knew we had n't much time , so we began right off . `` Aunt Tommy is the jolliest girl I know , '' I said . `` She is as beautiful as a dream , '' Jill said . `` She can play games as good as a boy , '' I said . `` She does the most elegant fancy work , '' Jill said . `` She never gets mad , '' I said . `` She plays and sings divinely , '' Jill said . `` She can cook awfully good things , '' I said , for I was beginning to run short of compliments . Jill was horrified ; she said afterwards that it was n't a bit romantic . But I do n't care -- I believe Dick liked it , for he smiled with his eyes I just as he always does when he 's pleased . Girls do n't understand everything . * * * * * But at the end of three months we began to get anxious . Things were going so slow . Dick and Aunt Tommy did n't seem a bit further ahead than at first . Jill said it was because Aunt Tommy did n't encourage Dick enough . `` I do wish we could hurry them up a little , '' she said . `` At this rate they will never be married this year and by next I 'll be too big to be a flower girl .
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