“We’ve got to get married,” said she. “That’s the only way to get the best of them.”
“But is that really getting the best of them?” he objected. “Isn’t that their purpose—to make us get married?”
This was a pregnant question, but they did not follow it up just then. They went on to the practical problem of where and when and how to accomplish their purpose.
“We can go to a court,” said he.
“Oh, no!” she exclaimed. “We’d have to meet a lot of men, and I couldn’t stand it.”
“But surely you don’t want to go to a church!” he said.
“Couldn’t we get some clergyman to marry us quietly?”
“But then, there’s a lot of rigmarole!”
“But mightn’t he leave it out?” she asked.
“I don’t know,” he said. “They generally believe in it, you see.”
He decided to make an attempt, however.
“Let’s go to-
