We must go to some well-known hotel, register openly, secure rooms, and conduct ourselves on the orthodox lines of all runaway couples, who are presumably head over heels in love with each other.

Moreover, in the morning, or whenever we are run to earth, you should allow me to face your father and play the part of the indignant husband.

It is essential that your marriage should appear real, or you go back to bondage and I to prison." "To prison!" The girl's horrified accents showed that she had hardly given a thought to the bald consequences of her escapade.
"Yes.

I am not trying to frighten you; but what sort of mercy would a judge show to the craven who absconded before the battle began?
If, on the other hand, I am, so to speak, torn from your arms--if a plausible lawyer can depict you tearful and inconsolable--if----" "You make out a fairly strong case, Mr.Curtis.

I have told you that I trust you, and I can only repeat my words of gratitude.