“Will not what?”
“I will not consent to the quiet wedding. Ina shall not be disappointed. This means too much to a girl. Good God! it is the one occasion of a woman's life, and women are children always. It is cruelty to children.”
“Then I pay,” Arms said.
“No, I pay,” said Carroll.
“You pay?”
“I pay,” Carroll repeated, doggedly.
“How?”
“Never mind how. I tell you I give you my word of honor I pay every dollar of those expenses the day after the wedding.”
“You will rob Peter to pay Paul, then,” declared Major Arms, incredulously and wrathfully.
Carroll laughed in a hard fashion. “I would kill Peter, besides robbing him, if it was necessary,” he said.