Listen: We can slip away and get married and nobody will be the wiser and then, when we come back, we can laugh at everybody." "And get our pictures in the papers." "Then, by Hokey! we won't come back for five years! How's that?
That'll fool 'em, won't it?
Say, this is great! Life is worth living after all.
You'll go, won't you, Grace ?" "I'd go to the end of the world with you, Hugh, but--" "Oh, say you'll go! Now, listen to this," he urged, leaping to his feet.
"We're going to be married anyway.

We love one another.

You can't be married until the twenty-third of May.

Lots of people elope--even in the best of families.

Why shouldn't we?
If we stay here, we'll have to face all the sort of thing we don't like--" "Yes, but it won't take us two months to elope," she protested.