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to look through the dresses some more while Lily went back to be fitted.  “I’ll wait.  We’ll want to get you some jewelry to match when we’re done.”
    Lily sighed.  She was happy her sister was so good at this sort of thing because just thinking about it all made her wish she was anyone else in the world.  She hated trying on new clothes.  She hated buying them and being fitted for them.  She’d rather be doing just about anything else.  “How long will it take?” she asked.
    The dressmaker looked at her in surprise.  Lily almost never spoke in her shop.  She just did as she was told.  “About ten days probably.”
    Lily bit her lip.  “I need it Friday.”  Was it even possible to have a dress made so quickly?
    “I’ll put a rush on it, but it will cost a little more.”   The dressmaker smiled at her, knowing her parents could afford it.
    “I think that’s okay.”  Lily put her hands out to have her bust measured.  “My mama will just be happy I’m getting a new dress.”   Lily had gotten several new dresses right after Rose got married, but she hadn’t bothered since. 
    A few minutes later Rose wandered to the back.  “I found four other dresses she needs, but not as quickly.”  She had marked each page with a swatch of cloth and showed them all to the dressmaker.  “How long will it take for all four of them?”
    The woman shook her head and sighed.  “Three weeks.  I have other customers, Mrs. Henry.”  She wouldn’t tell Rose ‘no’, but she wasn’t putting a rush on that many dresses.
    Rose laughed.  “Three weeks should be fine.” 
    Lily watched the byplay between the two women with a laugh.  They seemed to actually enjoy all of this dress stuff.   
    After the fitting, which seemed to take hours, Lily and Rose went to lunch at the restaurant.  They had just ordered their food, when Daniel and their father walked in.  Rose waved to them, making Lily blush.  “Stop it!”   She didn’t want Daniel to think they’d gone there just so she could have lunch with him.
    Rose just laughed.  “Maybe they’ll join us!”
    Both men walked over and greeted them.  Daniel smiled down at Lily as if Rose wasn’t even there.  For a moment, Lily’s eyes lit up in excitement that he’d chosen her over her sister, but then she realized that he probably didn’t want her or their father to see him looking at Rose, because they wouldn’t be able to miss the love in his eyes.
    Rose smiled up at her father.  “Why don’t you join us?” Rose asked slyly.
    Fred looked between Lily and Daniel.  “I think that’s a fine idea.  That okay with you Daniel?”
    Daniel nodded, his eyes never leaving Lily’s as he sank into the seat beside her, his hand finding hers under the table and squeezing it.  “It’s good to see you here.”  His eyes communicated that he wanted to be alone with her.
    She blushed, smiling at him.  “We were out getting a dress for the dance.”  
    His lips were against her ear as he asked, “But what you really wanted were pants for fishing?”
    She shivered at the touch of his lips against her ear. “Probably.”  She laughed.
    Fred and Rose watched them, both smiling.  Fred turned to Rose.  “Do you think they even know we’re here?”   His eyes twinkled, showing just how happy he was with their match.
    “Honestly?  No.”  She was so happy to see her sister in love, though.
    Lily glared at them.  “We know you’re here.  We just wish you weren’t.”  She made a face to let them know she was joking.
    All of them laughed.  Fred nodded.  “If you two didn’t want to be alone together, there’d be no point in courting, now would there?”
    The waiter came back and he and Daniel placed their orders.  “How’s my perfect little grandson?”  Fred was a proud grandfather and made no secret of the fact that he expected to have dozens of grandchildren crawling all over him within a decade or so.
    Rose smiled, and