We have this morning been married by registrar's licence.

We intend to live for a few weeks at this present address, where we have taken some furnished rooms until better arrangements can be made.

I lose no time in writing to you, for of course there is business between us that you will desire to transact as soon as may be.
"In obtaining the licence, I naturally gave false information regarding Cecily's age; this was an inevitable consequence of the step we had taken.

You know my opinions on laws and customs: for the multitude they are necessary, and an infraction of them by the average man is, logically enough, called a sin against society; for Cecily and myself, in relation to such a matter as our becoming man and wife, the law is idle form.

Personally, I could have wished to dispense with the absurdity altogether, but, as things are, this involves an injustice to a woman.