We could get married right off now, and not tell a soul--Kenelm or anybody else--till it was done.

Then they could talk or shut up, we wouldn't care.

They couldn't change nothin'." "Caleb Hammond, do you suppose I'd have the face to go to a minister in this town and have you tell him we'd come to get married?
I'd be so ashamed--" "Hold on! We don't have to go to a minister in this town.

There's other towns with parsons in them, ain't they?
We could drive over somewheres else." "Everybody'd see us drivin' together." "What of it?
They see us drivin' to the Cattle Show together, didn't they ?" "Yes, and they've talked about it ever since, some of 'em.

That Abbie Larkin said--Oh, I can't tell you what she said.