“It has been all our lives and we have just found it out,” said Von Rosen. “Of course, it is unusual, but who cares? Do you?”

“No, I don't,” said Annie. They leaned together over the yellow cat and kissed each other.

“But what an absurd minister's wife I shall be,” said Annie. “To think of your marrying a girl who has staid at home from church and played cards with her grandmother!”

“I am not at all sure,” said Von Rosen, “that you do not get more benefit, more spiritual benefit, than you would have done from my sermons.”

“I think,” said Annie, “that you are just about as funny a minister as I shall be a minister's wife.”

“I never thought I should be married at all.”

“Why not?”

“I did not care for women.”

“Then why do you now?”