"Engaged?" Bobs had already explained to her what that meant, but she repeated it to gain time.
"Why, yes—don't they have engagements in Japan?"
"No. Marriage broker go ad girl's father and boy's father and make those marriage."
"Well, this is a civilised land. We do things right here. You're a lucky girl to have escaped from Japan. Here, in this land, we first get engaged, say for a week or month or even a year—only a short time will do for you and me, Sunny—and then, well, we marry. How about it?"
Sunny considered the question from several serious angles, very thoughtful, very much impressed.
"Jinx, I do nod like to make marriage, bi-cause thas tie me up wiz jos one frien' for hosban'."
"But you don't want more than one husband?"
Jinx remembered hearing somewhere that the Japanese were a polygamous nation, but he thought that only applied to the favoured males of the race.
"No—O thas very nize for Mormon man I am hear of, bud——"