The lawyer opened his eyes at the story.

He had never heard anything like it.
"It doesn't sound as if you were sober when you did it.

Were you, sir?
It was a mad prank, anyhow!" "I had been drinking, but I wasn't drunk.

I'd been telling them stories and they used them as a means of tempting me to act in the absurd marriage ceremony.

Like a fool I consented.