“Listen to this, both of you!”
“Yea, O Queen,” they answered.
“Sheik Amut Ben Butler, you say you are king of this tail-end of the desert?”
“With your kind permission, Verbeena, the First.”
“And Parliament and everything?”
“Yes’m.”
“Well, Amut, old thing, right now you are in session. Pass a common law.”
“I—I——”
“Stupid—like they have in America. A common law for marriage. If a man and woman agree to live together as husband and wife—that settles it. It goes, hook, line, sinker and breakfast cereals. But it is made all the more binding when there is a written agreement between them.