I did n't know then that it was because he was afraid he was going to cry right there before everybody , and I felt deserted by all the world . `` Tell me all about it , '' said the young lady . So I told her as well as I could all about the wedding and how wild we were to see it and why we were running away to it . `` And now it 's all no use , '' I wailed . `` And we 'll be punished when they find out just the same . I would n't mind being punished if we had n't missed the wedding . We 've never seen a wedding -- and Pamelia was to wear a white silk dress -- and have flower girls -- and oh , my heart is just broken . I shall never get over this -- never -- if I live to be as old as Methuselah . '' `` What can we do for them ? '' said the young lady , looking up at the young man and smiling a little . She seemed to have forgotten that they had just quarrelled . `` I ca n't bear to see children disappointed . I remember my own childhood too well . '' `` I really do n't know what we can do , '' said the young man , smiling back , `` unless we get married right here and now for their sakes . If it is a wedding they want to see and nothing else will do them , that is the only idea I can suggest . '' `` Nonsense ! '' said the young lady . But she said it as if she would rather like to be persuaded it was n't nonsense . I looked up at her . `` Oh , if you have any notion of being married I wish you would right off , '' I said eagerly .
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