The best way is to settle the marrying part now.
I'll do the paying fast enough.

Are you coming ?" Mary V climbed meekly out and permitted her abductor to lift her to the ground, and to kiss her twice before he let her go.

Events were moving so swiftly that Mary V was a bit dazed, and she did not argue the point, even when she remembered that a white middy suit was not her idea of the way a bride should be dressed.

The very boldness of Johnny's proposition, its reckless disregard of the future, swept her along with him down the sandy side street which already held curious stragglers coming to see what new sensation the airplane could furnish.
These they passed without speaking, hurrying along, with Bland, like a footsore dog, trailing dejectedly after.
They passed the hotel and made straight for the county clerk's office, too absorbed in their mission to observe that their passing had brought the three newspaper men from the hotel lobby.

Bland fell into step with one of these and gave the news.