As far as I can see
that is the question which is up to you and your best friend at
the present moment. Are you prepared to jettison the claim on a
big fortune for the sake of making your voyage of life together?"
They looked at each other and a kind of radiance spread over their
faces. "Surely," they answered with one voice. "But how can the
marriage be arranged," asked Alice, "without a row in the family?"
"Very easily," I answered. "Both of you are over age, though you
don't look it. Our good lawyer friend Harrison will help you to
get the license. Fix your day for the wedding, neither secret nor
notorious; invite anybody you like, and come to me on the day you
have chosen. The arrangements will be made. You shall be married,
all right."
So they came, and I married them, and it was a very good job.
They had some years of difficulty and uncertainty during which
I caught brief glimpses of them now and then, always cheerful and
happy together. In the course of time the Obstacle, being not at
all bad-hearted but only pig-headed, probably relented a little, and
finally was gathered to his fathers, according to the common lot
of man.
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