What I shall do is this: On returning to town next week, I shall take Lilian over to Paris.

We shall live there for several weeks, and about the end of the time I shall write to my people here, and tell them that I have just been married." He paused.

Glazzard made no motion, and uttered no sound.
"I have already dropped a mysterious word or two to my sister, which she will be able to interpret afterwards.

Happily, I am thought a likely fellow to do odd, unconventional things.

Again and again Mary has heard me rail against the idiocies of ordinary weddings; this private marriage will be quite in character.