Garden Party

"Would you, Katie?"

Gene hardly paused for breath before she answered. "How could you even think I would say no? Just tell me the day and I'll be there. Oh, I'm so excited!"

Gene's best friend from Cos Cob had just called to ask Gene to be her Maid of Honor at her spring wedding.

Gene went on. "And, of course, you'll let me throw you the most wonderful afternoon tea the day before the wedding--just like the one we snuck into when we were girls, remember? We took some of those sweet little tea cakes and hid in a tree and watched all the women in their pretty garden party dresses? Well, now those women will be us!! I'll call Mother right now and get cooking on the arrangements!"

"Oh, a party!" Mrs. Marshall was agog. "Let me handle all the arrangements, dear," she told Gene. "Why, I haven't given one of these teas since you were a little girl. Mercy, you probably don't even recall..."

And Gene had to smile as she returned the receiver to its cradle.

The day of the tea, the guests filled the Marshall's back yard. All the colorful dresses made them look like flowers in a garden. And Gene was the perfect hostess in her lovely dress, embroidered with a bouquet of beautiful posies--but none as lovely as the delightful flower wearing the gown!

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