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back this week for the wedding and then Mary going back with him; and I couldn't just believe that Mary had gone. So I asked Jack, and he read us part of a letter from Wi, telling how Mary had reached there and they were nicely fixed and all, as I s'pose you know. And I was so surprised I didn't know what to do, and said, just as nonsense, "why we have choir meeting Saturday I guess we won't go" - never thinking of such a thing as really not going. And Harl and the boys sayed "Why of course we won't go if we don't get a bid," and I thought they were fooling but they weren't, and I was very surprised. They said - "wouldn't you expect we would be invited? and we are children away from home just