“I'm marrying Charity Coe.”
“My dear, dear boy! Really! You can't, you know! She has been divorced and so have you.”
“Yes, all quite legally.”
“And you ask me to join your hands in holy matrimony?”
“No, just plain legal matrimony. I was joined in holy matrimony once, and I don't insist on that part of it again. But Charity wants a clergyman and I don't mind.”
“Really, my son, you know better than to assume this tone to me. You've been away from church too long.”
“Well, if you want to get me back, fasten me to Charity. You know she's the best woman that ever lived.”
“She is a trifle too rebellious to merit that tribute, I fear.”
“Well, give her another chance. She has had enough hard knocks. You ought to go to her rescue.”
“Do you think that to be the duty of the Church?”