"It's been such horribly quick work, you know.

Why, she hasn't been out here six weeks.
It's a shame for any girl to marry on such short notice as that.

I said so to her, and she--she laughed and said, 'Oh, that's beggar's choice! Do you think I could enjoy life with your angels in paradise in unmarried bliss?
I'd sooner stay down in hell with you.' And she'd have done it too, Monck.

And it would probably have killed her.

That's partly how I came to know." "Haven't the women been decent to her ?" Monck's question fell curtly, as if the subject were one which he was reluctant to discuss.
Tommy looked at him through the starlight.