“You’ll come with me?”

It was a full minute before she could answer. Then she said:––

“It’s so impossible, Don.”

“Impossible?”

“One doesn’t––doesn’t get married that way!”

“What does it matter how one gets married?” he answered.

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“What would people say?”

“I don’t care what they’d say.”

“You mustn’t get like that, Don, dear,” she chided him. “Why, that’s being an anarchist or something, isn’t it?”