"Suppose we go mad together?" said Catherine. "I will if you will."
"Suppose we elope together!" said Esther. "Will you run off with me?"
"Any where but to Colorado," replied Catherine, "I have seen all I want of Colorado."
"We will take our wedding journey together and leave our husbands behind. Let them catch us if they can!" continued Esther, talking rapidly and feverishly.
"It would be rather fun to see Mr. Hazard driving Mr. Van Dam's fast trotters after us," remarked Catherine.
"When shall we go? Can we start now?"
"Don't you think we had better go to bed just now, and elope in the morning?" grumbled Catherine. "They can see us better by daylight."
"I tell you, Catherine, that I am in awful earnest. I mean to go away somewhere, and if you won't go with me, I shall go alone."
"Suppose they catch us?" said Catherine.
"I don't care! I am hopelessly wicked! I can't be respectable and believe the thirty-nine articles. I can't go to church every Sunday or hold my tongue or pretend to be pious."