But the cook said-- 'No, miss.

Not me, not even in a dream.

I don't say anythink ag'in the young chap's looks, but I always swore I'd be married in church, if at all--and, anyway, I don't believe these here savages would know how to keep a registering office, even if I was to show them.

No, mister, thanking you kindly, if you can't bring a clergyman into the dream I'll live and die like what I am.' 'Will you marry her if we get a clergyman ?' asked the match-making Anthea.
'I'm agreeable, miss, I'm sure,' said he, pulling his wreath straight.
''Ow this 'ere bokay do tiddle a chap's ears to be sure!' So, very hurriedly, the carpet was spread out, and instructed to fetch a clergyman.

The instructions were written on the inside of Cyril's cap with a piece of billiard chalk Robert had got from the marker at the hotel at Lyndhurst.