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Do tell us all about it . '' `` What are you saying ? '' asked Dorothy , with a momentary alarm coming into her eyes . `` Oh , I was just telling mother and Sab that you had skipped by the light of the noon , with the captain of the ` Consternation , ' who was a jolly old bachelor last night , but may be a married man to-day if my suspicions are correct . Oh , Dorothy , must I go to the ball in a dress of print ? '' The sewing girl bent an affectionate look on the impulsive Katherine . `` Kate , dear , '' she said , `` you shall wear the grandest ball dress that ever was seen in Bar Harbor . ''