“Darling, have some wine,” said Diane.
“I didn’t know you were even engaged,” said the lady of the restaurant.
“I wasn’t,” said Diane, dimpling.
“Then how are you going to manage it so quickly?”
“The lecture will now be resumed,” said Bill. “I have already addressed the class on the subject of special licences; let us now turn our attention to the ordinary licence. This is obtainable from any surrogate upon payment of a fee of two pun’ ten or thereabouts, and takes only three days to mature, as opposed to marriage by banns, which is cheaper still but takes three weeks and is therefore out of the question in our case. Tonight we are going to Weatherley Parva, and tomorrow morning early I am going out to find the nearest surrogate.”
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