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She tried to thank her benefactor , but her sensitive lips quivered and the girls knew that she was so overcome with emotion that she might cry , and so Miss Selenski began at once to tell them about her wedding plans , and then , soon after she had finished , the girls who had been invited for tea arrived . Miss Selenski knew many of them , and so the conversation became general and little Nell Wiggin was permitted to quietly become accustomed to her wonderful good fortune before she was again asked to join in the conversation . Bobs walked with her to the elevated , and merry plans she laid for the pleasant times the Vandergrifts were to have with their new neighbors . One Monday , at high noon , the pretty Miss Selenski was married in the Hungarian church and her four new friends were among the many foreign women who came to wish their kindly neighbor much happiness in her new life . Gloria had been pleased with the earnest face of the man who had won the love of little Miss Selenski , and when the smiling pair rode away on an automobile delivery truck , which was their very own , the Vandergrift girls , with Nell Wiggin , stood on a crowded street corner and waved and nodded , promising that very soon they would visit the little home , with a yard around it , that was out near the woodsy Bronx Park . Bobs at the last moment had tied an old shoe to the back of the truck with a white ribbon , and there it hung dangling and bobbing in a manner most festive , while through a small hole in the sole of it a stream of rice trickled , but in the thronging , surging masses of East Side humanity this little drama was scarcely noticed . When Mr. and Mrs. Cheniska had disappeared up Third Avenue , Gloria turned to smile at little Nell Wiggin .