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Updated: June 14, 2025
"I dreamed that I went into the registrar's office to get my chapel card," began Elfreda impressively. "When she handed it to me it was three times larger than the others. On it in big red letters was printed, 'The Anarchist, Her Card. I thought I handed it back to her and tried to explain that I wasn't an anarchist because I had neither bushy eyebrows nor a scowl.
Now if I had charge of things here, I'd make such changes that you wouldn't know the place. I'd throw two rooms off here, and a corridor and entrance-door at that end of the building. I'd close up this door" pointing toward the Registrar's room "and if John J. Laylor wanted to come in here he might go round to the end door like other people."
Then she waits till the sentence is finished and lifts the book with the left hand instead of the right. The Registrar's clerk has to go across to the box and shout an explanation into her ear.
She was still smarting under the hurt of the registrar's sharp words. It was unspeakably humiliating to be told that she had overstepped her authority. She had thought that Miss Sheldon knew her too well for that. It merely served to show how little one knew persons, she reflected bitterly.
"Stick by us, laddie," Reggie had said pleadingly, "for there is much to discuss, and we need the counsel of a man of the world. We are married all right " "Though it didn't seem legal in that little registrar's office," put in Alice. " But that, as the blighters say in books, is but a beginning, not an end.
'Tell the truth, says the old lady, with alacrity; 'why, that's what I be come for. The Judge asks her what it is she claims, and she replies that that man, the Registrar's clerk, has got it all written down in his book. She then turns to the Defendant's wife, who stands in the box opposite, and shouts to her, 'You knows you ain't paid it.
How would it be to consent to their having banns published? that would mean another three weeks anyway, and in absence from each other they might be influenced to put it off. I'm afraid this is the only chance, for if you simply forbid it, I feel they will run off and get married somewhere at a registrar's." Pierson took this letter out with him into the Square Garden, for painful cogitation.
From Whitaker Lewisham learnt that it would be possible at a cost of £2, 6s. 1d. or £2, 7s. 1d. He did little addition sums in the note-book. The church fees he found were variable, but for more personal reasons he rejected a marriage at church. Marriage by certificate at a registrar's involved an inconvenient delay. It would have to be £2, 7s. 1d. Vails ten shillings, say.
But Knollys provided him with clothes brush and toilet apparatus while Marcella waited. "I've found out all about getting married," he explained when they got outside on the quay again. "It's frightfully simple. Knollys has just told me where the Registrar's place is. Lord! Marcella, do you feel frightened?" "No," she said, rather faintly. "It's worse for me than for you, after all.
For instance, it is an established fact that this is the chemist Bezuquet's family's: "Thou art the fair star that I adore!" The gunmaker Costecalde's family's: "Would'st thou come to the land Where the log-cabins rise?" The official registrar's family's: "If I wore a coat of invisible green, Do you think for a moment I could be seen?" And so on for the whole of Tarascon.
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