In this way you save the heavy special license fee.

How does it strike you ?" It struck Septimus as a remarkable suggestion, and he admired the lawyer exceedingly.
"I suppose it's really a good and proper marriage ?" he asked.
The benevolent young man reassured him; it would take all the majesty of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty division of the High Court of Justice to dissolve it.

Septimus agreed that in these circumstances it must be a capital marriage.

Then the solicitor offered to see the whole matter through and get him married in the course of a day or two.

After which he dismissed him with a professional blessing which cheered Septimus all the way to the Ravenswood Hotel..