“As if he would not! He would marry the whole train if it asked him!”
“Bravo, Mr. Ephrinell! A wedding in a train will be delightful.”
“We should never put off until to-morrow what we can do to-day.”
“Yes, I know, time is money.”
“No! Time is time, simply, and I do not care to lose a minute of it.”
Ephrinell clasped my hand, and as I had promised, I went to take the necessary steps regarding the witnesses necessary for the nuptial ceremonial.
It needs not be said that the commercials were of full age and free to dispose of themselves, to enter into marriage before a clergyman, as is done in America, and without any of the fastidious preliminaries required in France and other formalistic countries. Is this an advantage or otherwise? The Americans think it is for the best, and, as Cooper says, the best at home is the best everywhere.
I first asked Major Noltitz, who willingly agreed to be Miss Bluett’s witness.
“These Yankees are astonishing,” he said to me.
“Precisely because they are astonished at nothing, major.”