In fact, by the time the bouillon disappeared to make room for the next
course, she had quite forgotten her worries, so deeply was she
interested in what Robert was telling her of the wonderful growth and
vigor of his city home, Chicago; while the children, unwatched and well
occupied, fell into order like well-trained soldiers; Molly now and then
flinging out some _naive_ remark which sent a ripple of laughter
around the table, at which Morton would begin trying to frown her down,
in his elder-brotherly way, and end by laughing with the rest.
When the ladies had returned to the drawing-room and coffee, leaving the
gentlemen deep in a political discussion in the professor's snuggery,
just off the dining-room, Mrs. Macon saw the children happily interested
in some beautiful photographs of European scenes, viewed through a
powerfully mounted lens, then turned to the others.
"Come," she said, "I want you to go up-stairs with me, and see Sara's
dress. My dressmaker has done wonders the past week, and it is nearly
ready."
They followed her to the little sewing-room, which Sara so well
remembered as the first apartment of this hospitable house into which
she had ever been introduced, and there lay the white gown over a chair.
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