She hesitated a moment, then tilted her chin and said, “We crossed the border into Mexico and were married there.”
“May I ask why?”
“George... Mr. Sabin said that for certain reasons he preferred to be married there... and...”
“Yes?” Mason prompted as she stopped.
“We were to be married again,” she said, “in Santa Delbarra.”
“Why there?”
“He... he intimated that his former wife had secured a divorce, that the interlocutory decree had not yet become final, and there might be some doubt as to the validity of the marriage. He said that it would... After all, Mr. Mason, this is something of a private matter.”
“It is in part,” Mason said, “and in part it isn’t.”
“Well, you can look at it in this way. I knew at the time I married him that the marriage was of doubtful legality. I considered it as a... as a gesture to the conventions. I understood that it would be followed with a second and more legal marriage that was to have taken place very shortly.”
“Then you thought your first marriage was illegal?”