Even though he should be stunned by their wrath he must endure it.
He breakfasted early the next day, and got into his gig before nine.
He must face the enemy, and the earlier that he did it the better.

His difficulty now lay in arranging the proposition that he would make and the words that he should speak.

Every difficulty would be smoothed and every danger dispelled if he would only say that he would marry the girl as quickly as the legal forms would allow.

Father Marty, he knew, would see to all that, and the marriage might be done effectually.

He had quite come to understand that Father Marty was practical rather than romantic.