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`` Was he married ? '' inquired Quincy . `` Robert never knew , '' said Aunt Ella , `` but he imagined not , as Charlie , as he called him , never spoke in his letters of being in love , much less of being married . '' Quincy caught the three o'clock train to Eastborough Centre , and Ellis Smith , another son of ` Bias Smith , who had taken the hotel carriage in place of his brother Abbott , drove him home . A few days thereafter invitations to the wedding of Ezekiel Pettengill and Hulda Ann Mason were sent broadcast through Eastborough Centre , West Eastborough , Mason 's Corner , and Montrose . Then it was decided by the gossips that Ezekiel was going to have Mr. Sawyer and Hiram Maxwell and Sam Hill to stand up with him , while Huldy Ann was going to have Alice Pettengill , Mandy Skinner , and Tilly James as bridesmaids . The whole town turned out when the two gaudy wagons , with their handsome horses and fine harness reached Eastborough Centre , and a number of Centre folks followed the unique procession over to Mason 's Corner .