to happen all right for her.  Mrs. Haydon was very tired taking all this trouble for her, and when Lena couldn’t even take trouble to come and see her aunt, to see if she needed anything to tell her.  But Mrs. Haydon really never minded things like that when she could do things for anybody.  She was tired now, all the trouble she had been taking to make things right for Lena, but perhaps now Lena heard it she would learn a little to be thankful to her.  “You get all ready to be married Tuesday, Lena, you hear me,” said Mrs. Haydon to her.  “You come here Tuesday morning and I have everything all ready for you.  You wear your new dress I got you, and your hat with all them flowers on it, and you be very careful coming you don’t get your things all dirty, you so careless all the time, Lena, and not thinking, and you act sometimes you never got no head at all on you.  You go home now, and you tell your Mrs. Aldrich that you leave her Tuesday.  Don’t you go forgetting now, Lena, anything I ever told you what you should do to be careful.  You be a good girl, now Lena.  You get married Tuesday to Herman Kreder.”  And that was all Lena ever knew of what had happened all this week to Herman Kreder.  Lena forgot there was anything to know about it.  She was really to be married Tuesday, and her Aunt Mathilda said she was a good girl, and now there was no disgrace left upon her.

Lena now fell back into the way she always had of being always dreamy and not there, the way she always had been, except for the few days she was so excited, because she had been left by a man the very day she was to have been married.  Lena was a little nervous all these last days, but she did not think much about what it meant for her to be married.

Herman Kreder was not so content about it.  He was quiet and was sullen and he knew he could not help it.  He knew now he just had to let himself get married.  It was not that Herman did not like Lena Mainz.  She was as good as any other girl could be for him.  She was a little better perhaps than other girls he saw, she was so very quiet, but Herman did not like to always have to have a girl around him.  Herman had always done everything that his mother and his father wanted.  His father had found him in New York, where Herman had gone to be with his married sister.

Herman’s father when he had found him coaxed Herman a long time and went on whole days with his complaining to him, always troubled but gentle and quite patient with him, and always he was worrying to Herman about what was the right way his boy Herman should always do, always whatever it was his mother ever wanted from him, and always Herman never made him any answer.