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Then , all at once , he realised that it had been worth all his days of patient and impatient waiting , for turning to him at last she gave herself , with the abandon such natures are capable of showing when they yield after long resistance , into the arms which closed hungrily around her . * * * * * If anybody could have told what happened during the next twenty-four hours it would have been Juliet , for it was she who took the helm of affairs . She lay awake half the night , or what there was left of it after the doctor had come back with Rachel and told his friends what had happened and what was yet to happen , planning to make the hasty wedding as ideal as might be . She was a wonderful planner , and a most energetic and enthusiastic young matron as well , so by five in the afternoon she had accomplished all that had seemed to her good . Rachel 's part was only to see that her trunk was packed , her explanations offered and good-byes said , and her choice made of several exquisite white gowns which Juliet had had sent out from town . `` But I ca n't be married in white , Mrs. Robeson , '' she had said protestingly when Juliet had opened the boxes . `` Yes , you can -- and must .