`` It 's lucky I baked that fruitcake Monday . You can come when you 're ready . '' She stalked home across the field . In a few minutes the doctor and Mary Isabel followed , and behind them came the young minister , carrying his blue book under his arm , and trying hard and not altogether successfully to look grave . The Twins and a Wedding Sometimes Johnny and I wonder what would really have happened if we had never started for Cousin Pamelia 's wedding . I think that Ted would have come back some time ; but Johnny says he does n't believe he ever would , and Johnny ought to know , because Johnny 's a boy . Anyhow , he could n't have come back for four years . However , we did start for the wedding and so things came out all right , and Ted said we were a pair of twin special Providences . Johnny and I fully expected to go to Cousin Pamelia 's wedding because we had always been such chums with her . And she did write to Mother to be sure and bring us , but Father and Mother did n't want to be bothered with us . That is the plain truth of the matter . They are good parents , as parents go in this world ; I do n't think we could have picked out much better , all things considered ; but Johnny and I have always known that they never want to take us with them anywhere if they can get out of it . Uncle Fred says that it is no wonder , since we are a pair of holy terrors for getting into mischief and keeping everybody in hot water . But I think we are pretty good , considering all the temptations we have to be otherwise . And , of course , twins have just twice as many as ordinary children . Anyway , Father and Mother said we would have to stay home with Hannah Jane . This decision came upon us , as Johnny says , like a bolt from the blue . At first we could n't believe they were not joking . Why , we felt that we simply had to go to Pamelia 's wedding . We had never been to a wedding in our lives and we were just aching to see what it would be like .
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