"And, then, so soon, too.

Why must we have a wedding trip, now that you are so busy?
Wouldn't it be better--oh, I tell you, we could go to Monterey after we were married, for a little week, where mamma's people live, and then come back here to the ranch house and settle right down where we are and let me keep house for you.

I wouldn't even want a single servant." Annixter heard and his face grew troubled.
"Hum," he said, "I see." He gathered up a handful of pebbles and began snapping them carefully into the creek.

He fell thoughtful.

Here was a phase of the affair he had not planned in the least.