"
"By Jove, dear, it sounds rather dreadful, doesn't it?" he groaned.
"But of course you ARE going to marry me, so what's the odds? Then she
can marry Dauntless to her heart's content. I say, are we never to get
away from this beastly place?"
"They are to row us across the river in boats. We'll be taken up by
another train over there and carried on. Poor Mr. Dauntless, he looks
so harassed."
"By Jove, I feel rather cut up about him. He ought to have her, Anne.
He's a decent chap, although he was da--very unreasonable last night.
I like him, too, in spite of the fact that he kicked coal over me
twice in that confounded bin. He was good enough to take a cinder out
of my eye this morning, and I helped him to find his watch in the
coal-bin. I say, Anne, we might get a farm wagon and drive to some
village where there is a minister--"
"No, Harry! you know I've set my heart on being married in a church.
It seems so much more decent and--regular; especially after what has
just happened."
A porter appeared in the rear platform and shouted a warning to all
those on the ground.
"Get yo' things together. The boats'll be ready in ten minutes, ladies
and gen'l'men.
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