his arm and they went along silently together as true comrades do he saw that she was and to question her oh i ve been talking to her she said at last i wish i hadn t and yet it is best to be reminded of things i hope she was civil yes i � i can t help liking her � just a little bit she s not an nature and i am so glad her difficulties have all suddenly ended she explained how had been summoned back and would be enabled to her position i was referring to our old question what has been saying to me has made me feel more than ever how hopelessly vulgar an institution legal marriage is � a sort of trap to catch a man i can t bear to think of it i wish i hadn t promised to let you put up the this morning oh don t mind me any time will do for me i thought you might like to get it over quickly now indeed i don t feel anxious now than i did before perhaps with any other man i might be a little anxious but among the very few virtues possessed by your family and mine dear i think i may set so i am not a bit frightened about losing you now i really am yours and you really are mine in fact i am easier in my mind than i was for my conscience is clear at and elsewhere about richard who now has a right to his freedom felt we were deceiving him before sue you seem when you are like this to be one of the women of some grand old civilization whom i used to read about in my by gone wasted classical days rather than a of a mere christian country i almost expect you to say at these times that you have just been talking to some friend whom you met in the about the latest news of or or have been listening to s eloquence or have been watching away at his latest while made complaint that she was tired of they had now the house of the parish clerk sue stood back while her lover went up to the door his hand was raised to knock when she said he looked round wait a minute would you mind he came back to her just let us think she said timidly i had such a horrid dream one night and � what did say to you he asked oh she said that when people were tied up you could get the law of a man better if he beat you � and how when couples quarrelled do you think that when you must have me with you by law we shall be so happy as we are now the men and women of our family are very generous when everything depends upon their but they always kick against don t you dread the attitude that arises out of legal obligation don t you think it is destructive to a passion whose essence is its upon my word love you are beginning to frighten me too with all this well let s go back and think it over her face brightened yes � so we will said she and they turned from the clerk s door sue taking his arm and murmuring as they walked on homeward ax the obscure can you keep the bee from or the ring dove s neck from changing no nor d love they thought it over or postponed thinking certainly they postponed action and seemed to live on in a dreamy paradise at the end of a fortnight or three weeks matters remained un advanced and no were announced to the ears of any congregation whilst they were and thus a letter and a newspaper arrived before breakfast one morning from seeing the handwriting went up to sue s room and told her and as soon as she was dressed she hastened down sue opened the newspaper the letter after glancing at the paper she held across the first page to him with her finger on a paragraph but he was so absorbed in his letter that he did not turn a while look said she he looked and read the paper was one that in south london only and the marked advertisement was simply the announcement of a marriage at st john s church road under the names � the united pair being and the inn keeper well it is satisfactory said sue complacently though after this it seems rather low to do likewise and i am glad � however she is provided for now in a way i suppose whatever her faults poor thing it is that we are able to think that than to be uneasy about her i ought too to write to richard and ask him how he is getting on perhaps but s attention was still absorbed having merely glanced at the announcement he said in a disturbed voice listen to this letter what shall i say or do j at and elsewhere ton l i won t be so distant as to call you mr � i send to day a newspaper from which useful document yon will learn that i was married over again to garden last so that business is settled ri ht and tight at last but what i write about more particular is that private affair i wanted to speak to you on when i came down to i couldn t very well tell it to your lady friend and should much have liked to let you know it by word of mouth as i could have explained better than by letter the fact is that though i have never informed you before there was a boy born of our marriage eight months after i left you when i was at 