Millions and millions of
friendly folk, chiefly nurse- maids and traffic policemen, waved to
them, and for some reason smiled.
"The joke of it is," declared Carter, "they don't know! The most
wonderful event of the century has just passed into history. We are
married, and nobody knows!"
But when the car drove away from in front of Carter's door, they
saw on top of it two old shoes and a sign reading: "We have just
been married." While they had been at luncheon, the chauffeur had
risen to the occasion.
"After all," said Carter soothingly, "he meant no harm. And it's
the only thing about our wedding yet that seems legal."
Three months later two very unhappy young people faced starvation
in the sitting-room of Carter's flat. Gloom was written upon the
countenance of each, and the heat and the care that comes when one
desires to live, and lacks the wherewithal to fulfill that desire,
had made them pallid and had drawn black lines under Dolly's eyes.
Mrs. Ingram had played her part exactly as her dearest friends had
said she would. She had sent to Carter's flat, seven trunks filled
with Dolly's clothes, eighteen hats, and another most unpleasant
letter. In this, on the sole condition that Dolly would at once
leave her husband, she offered to forgive and to support her.
To this Dolly composed eleven scornful answers, but finally decided
that no answer at all was the most scornful.
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