"What is all?
Is it but the one thing that the world says must part husband and wife?
Caramba! Is that all?
I have given everything--I have had your arms around me--" "Yes, the Clerk of the Court saw that," he interrupted.

"He saw from the hill behind the Manor on Tuesday last." There was a tap at the door of the other room; it slowly opened, and the figure of the Clerk appeared.

"Two minutes--just two minutes more, old trump!" said the master-carpenter, stretching out a hand.

"One minute will be enough," said Carmen, who was suffering the greatest humiliation which can come to a woman.
The Clerk looked at them both, and he was content.

He saw that one minute would certainly be enough.