CHAPTER 34She looked at him, bewildered, as though she could not grasp the meaning of his words.
“That I marry you?” she repeated.
“That you marry me to-morrow. I took the precaution this afternoon of going to Doctors’ Commons and securing a special licence, which allows me to be married to-morrow morning. I had some trouble in getting it, but it is here——” he tapped his breast pocket. “Before leaving London I telegraphed to the vicar of Leitworth, a village some thirty miles from here, and asked him to perform the ceremony at ten o’clock to-morrow morning.”
His face was white; he was obviously labouring under the stress of some tense emotion. Presently he went on in a lower voice:
“I will make you a rich woman. I will place you and your mother beyond want. I will give you a position i
