"Then Jugatinus has not had time to marry you to anybody, and certainly he would never think of marrying you to two wives. Why do you talk such nonsense?"
"No, it is true, I was not married by Jugatinus."
"So there!" says Chloris, as if that settled matters. "Now you see for yourself."
"Why, yes, to be sure," says Jurgen, "that does put rather a different light upon it, now I think of it."
"It makes all the difference in the world."
"I would hardly go that far. Still, I perceive it makes a difference."
"Why, you talk as if everybody did not know that Jugatinus marries people!"
"No, dear, let us be fair! I did not say precisely that."
"—And as if everybody was not always married by Jugatinus!"
"Yes, here in Leukê, perhaps. But outside of Leukê, you understand, my darling!"