Trina and McTeague were married on the first day of June, in the photographer's rooms that the dentist had rented.

All through May the Sieppe household had been turned upside down.

The little box of a house vibrated with excitement and confusion, for not only were the preparations for Trina's marriage to be made, but also the preliminaries were to be arranged for the hegira of the entire Sieppe family.
They were to move to the southern part of the State the day after Trina's marriage, Mr.Sieppe having bought a third interest in an upholstering business in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

It was possible that Marcus Schouler would go with them.
Not Stanley penetrating for the first time into the Dark Continent, not Napoleon leading his army across the Alps, was more weighted with responsibility, more burdened with care, more overcome with the sense of the importance of his undertaking, than was Mr.Sieppe during this period of preparation.

From dawn to dark, from dark to early dawn, he toiled and planned and fretted, organizing and reorganizing, projecting and devising.