Mrs. Haydon attended to Lena's getting all the things that she needed.
Lena had to help a good deal with the sewing. Lena did not sew very
well. Mrs. Haydon scolded because Lena did not do it better, but then
she was very good to Lena, and she hired a girl to come and help her.
Lena still stayed on with her pleasant mistress, but she spent all her
evenings and her Sundays with her aunt and all the sewing.
Mrs. Haydon got Lena some nice dresses. Lena liked that very well.
Lena liked having new hats even better, and Mrs. Haydon had some made
for her by a real milliner who made them very pretty.
Lena was nervous these days, but she did not think much about getting
married. She did not know really what it was, that, which was always
coming nearer.
Lena liked the place where she was with the pleasant mistress and the
good cook, who always scolded, and she liked the girls she always sat
with. She did not ask if she would like being married any better. She
always did whatever her aunt said and expected, but she was always
nervous when she saw the Kreders with their Herman. She was excited
and she liked her new hats, and everybody teased her and every day her
marrying was coming nearer, and yet she did not really know what it
was, this that was about to happen to her.
Herman Kreder knew more what it meant to be married and he did not
like it very well.
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