" Alva was their one child. She had been christened Malvina, after Joe's mother; but when the Balls "blossomed out" they renamed her Alva, which they somehow had got the impression was "smarter."
At Joe's blundering confession that the females of the family were in no condition to receive, Anita said to me in a low voice: "Let us go.
"
I pretended not to hear. "Rout 'em out," said I to Joe. "And then take my electric and bring the nearest parson.
There's going to be a wedding-right here." And I looked round the long salon, with everything draped for the summer departure. Joe whisked the cover off one chair, his man off another.
"I'll have the women folks down in two minutes," he cried. Then to the man: "Get a move on you, Billy. Stir 'em up in the kitchen.
Do the best you can about supper-and put a lot of champagne on the ice. That's the main thing at a wedding."
Anita had seated herself listlessly in one of the uncovered chairs.
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