She did not want to make them angry, for she
wanted very badly now that Lena should be married to their Herman.
At last it was decided that the wedding should be put off a week
longer. Old Mr. Kreder would go to New York to find Herman, for it was
very likely that Herman had gone there to his married sister.
Mrs. Haydon sent word around, about waiting until a week from that
Tuesday, to everybody that had been invited, and then Tuesday morning
she sent for Lena to come down to see her.
Mrs. Haydon was very angry with poor Lena when she saw her. She
scolded her hard because she was so foolish, and now Herman had gone
off and nobody could tell where he had gone to, and all because Lena
always was so dumb and silly. And Mrs. Haydon was just like a mother
to her, and Lena always stood there so stupid and did not answer what
anybody asked her, and Herman was so silly too, and now his father
had to go and find him. Mrs. Haydon did not think that any old people
should be good to their children. Their children always were so
thankless, and never paid any attention, and older people were always
doing things for their good. Did Lena think it gave Mrs. Haydon any
pleasure, to work so hard to make Lena happy, and get her a good
husband, and then Lena was so thankless and never did anything that
anybody wanted. It was a lesson to poor Mrs. Haydon not to do things
any more for anybody.
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