Kedzie sat speechless through all this. She wished that Jim would show more ardor for her, but she felt that he was doing fairly well not to knock her parents' heads together the way he had her husband's and his friend's. She was as eager as Jim to get rid of the elder Thropps, but she wanted to make sure of the wedding, and her mother was evidently to be trusted to bring it about. At length Jim spoke in the tone of the condemned man who says, “Well, let's hurry up and get the execution off our minds”.
“I'll go and see a lawyer and make inquiries about how the marriage can be done.”
He started to say to Kedzie, “You ought to know.”
She started to tell him about the Marriage License Bureau in the Municipal Building. Both recaptured silence tactfully.
He kissed Kedzie, and he had a narrow escape from being kissed by Mrs. Thropp.