`` And you 're going to ? '' she said . `` It 's quite likely . '' Ellen went on shelling peas for a few minutes . Then she suddenly put her hands up to her own face . There were tears in her black-browed eyes . `` I -- I hope we 'll all be happy , '' she said between a sob and a laugh . Down at the manse Una Meredith , warm , rosy , triumphant , marched boldly into her father 's study and laid a letter on the desk before him . His pale face flushed as he saw the clear , fine handwriting he knew so well . He opened the letter . It was very short -- but he shed twenty years as he read it . Rosemary asked him if he could meet her that evening at sunset by the spring in Rainbow Valley . CHAPTER XXXV . `` LET THE PIPER COME '' `` And so , '' said Miss Cornelia , `` the double wedding is to be sometime about the middle of this month . '' There was a faint chill in the air of the early September evening , so Anne had lighted her ever ready fire of driftwood in the big living room , and she and Miss Cornelia basked in its fairy flicker . `` It is so delightful -- especially in regard to Mr. Meredith and Rosemary , '' said Anne . `` I 'm as happy in the thought of it , as I was when I was getting married myself . I felt exactly like a bride again last evening when I was up on the hill seeing Rosemary 's trousseau . '' `` They tell me her things are fine enough for a princess , '' said Susan from a shadowy corner where she was cuddling her brown boy . `` I have been invited up to see them also and I intend to go some evening .
I understand that Rosemary is to wear white silk and a veil , but Ellen is to be married XXXXX navy blue .
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