You'll do better to go to Switzerland with the young lady." For the present he went back to her with a list of the required certificates, and another item which he brought out later as a corrective for the disappointment for the first.
"My birth and baptismal certificates?
I haven't any," said Miss Dassonville, "and I don't believe you have either; and I don't want to go to Switzerland." "No," said Peter, "even that takes three weeks." "Why can't he marry us himself--the consul, I mean?
I thought wherever the flag went up was territory of the United States." "If you will come along with me in the morning we can ask him," Peter suggested, and on the way there he loosed for her benefit the second item of his yesterday's discovery.

They slid past the facade of a certain palace and she kissed the tip of her finger to it lightly.

"It's as if we had a secret between us," she explained, "the secret of the garden.

Besides, I shall always love it because it was there I first suspected that you--cared.

When did you begin to care, Peter ?" "Since before I can remember.