CHAPTER XXXIVUpon their return to the city the next day Dora entered into their plans with generous zest; and Hilary found herself in a world of surprises and thrills. The sisters shopped busily on Monday, Butterfly protesting radiantly that she was not tired, that it was doing her good! Hilary’s room was a maze of packages when they got home. It was Craig who took her, late on her wedding-eve, to select the most splendid of suitcases, and on the actual day of the wedding she and Kronski bought the plain little gold ring, and scurried about in his car frantically attending to last details.
“The idea is not to give oneself time to think, apparently,” Hilary told him. “Butterfly asks me if I am nervous, and Mrs. Spaulding but oh, look!” The name of Craig’s mother reminded her. “Look!” she s
