"Yes, yes, yes. Who could you find to overlook the age question? Who performed the ceremony?"
"Ceremony?"
"Oh, ho! Registry-office performance, eh? and perjury! Monstrous irreligion! My grandson!"
"What do you mean?" But a light was beginning to dawn.
"Who were your witnesses?"
Ethan laughed and flushed, and then grew serious again.
"Of course, it's exactly the same as if we were married, exactly the same." He flashed a broadside of defiance out of shining eyes. "But we know we can't well be married while I'm a minor, and—"
"You aren't married?"
"Oh no. But—"
"Then, what in the name of Jehoshaphat is all this damned—what's all this disturbance about?"