“No—no! Nothing!”
“Come on, then. We shall have to hurry.”
“The Court,” to whom they were referred for information, proved to be a huge, middle-aged, kindly person. If marriage was difficult under the state laws, adoption was comparatively easy.
“Now what is the very shortest time in which it could be done?”
“Oh, it need not take much time. A couple of weeks would be ample.”
Two pairs of dismayed eyes consulted each other.
“Couldn’t you do it in less?”
“Why, I don’t know. If the circumstances were extraordinary—”
“Couldn’t you do it before five o’clock to-day?”