“You’ll have to show me where this registry office is,” said the gardener, “and also what to do. I don’t know how one gets married.”

“Neither do I,” said the suffragette.

“I’ll carry your bag.”

“I like carrying things. I hate being helped. You must always remember that I am a militant suffragette.”

“I am never allowed to forget it,” sighed the gardener, his ardour rather damped. “Are we getting near the place?”

“Very near.”

They stopped at the steps of a church.

“We might have thought it our duty to be married in a church,” she said. “What a merciful escape!”

He was silent.

“I hate God,” she added.