"You are going to be Mrs.Nicholson," he said.

"Mrs.T.O.Nicholson.

That shows everyone that you are my wife." "What is a 'wife' exactly ?" she demanded, a dangerous gleam in her eye.
"A wife is the woman who belongs to a man," he began.
But Jeff took it up eagerly: "And a husband is the man who belongs to a woman.

It is because we are monogamous, you know.

And marriage is the ceremony, civil and religious, that joins the two together--'until death do us part,'" he finished, looking at Celis with unutterable devotion.
"What makes us all feel foolish," I told the girls, "is that here we have nothing to give you--except, of course, our names." "Do your women have no names before they are married ?" Celis suddenly demanded.
"Why, yes," Jeff explained.