A minister came and did it.

He had his license, and we have the paper he signed." Ephraim set his teeth hard together and kept silence.

He said to himself that he might have known that the rascals would be clever enough to make the tie secure.
Susannah wept on, not loudly, but with long convulsive sighs that broke into the tears she was endeavouring to check.
"And, Ephraim, my husband is good--oh, very good, and very kind to me, and up to last night I thought that what he believed might be true.

I was not sure, but I thought that Joseph Smith might be a prophet.

I knew they were far, far better than the other people who despise them, and so I was glad to be with them; and up till last night" (she repeated the words, controlling herself to give them emphasis)--"up till last night I thought that they at least believed everything they said to be true." Then, after an interval of unthinking pain, Ephraim perceived that if he had come under a mistaken belief, he had at least come at the right moment; if the bond of her marriage held, the bond of her delusion was broken; she had detected some fraud.