“So, without a regret for the past, or a misgiving of the future, I yielded myself up to the joy of the present.
“It was a very happy journey. Excitement kept us all from feeling the least sense of fatigue.
“About dawn we stopped at a wayside station.
“‘Here we are,’ said Anglesea, as the guard called out the name of the place.
“We alighted, and Anglesea, keeping up his rôle, proposed that we should go first to the hotel which stood on the other side of the track.
“‘We must get washed, and combed, and fed, my children, before we can present ourselves before the minister,’ he said, speaking to us as if we were indeed children and he were quite a venerable party. He was, in truth, younger by a year than Saviola.
“We went to the hotel, the ‘Victoria,’ where two rooms were engaged—one for me alone, and one for Anglesea and Savialo jointly.
“I went to mine to refresh my toilet. I had never dressed myself without the help of a maid in my life, and hardly knew how to go about it. However, I rang for the chambermaid, and with her assistance I took a bath and made a change of clothes.
“After this I went down and joined Anglesea and Saviola in the ladies’ parlor. They took me to breakfast in the coffee room; and soon after that we all three walked out in search of a minister. No marriage license was required in Scotland.
“We found a church, with a parsonage adjoining.