9/16 A man and a woman who wish to be married (in Scotland) have only to secure the necessary witnesses and the thing is done. If the landlady chooses to resent the deception practiced on her, after that, the landlady may do as she pleases. We shall have gained our object in spite of her--and, what is more, we shall have gained it without risk to _you._" "Don't lay it all on my shoulders," Geoffrey rejoined. "You women go headlong at every thing. |