"
Standish said, "Miss Cambridge, this is Mr. Cortlandt Van Bibber, of
whom you have heard my brother speak," and Miss Cambridge said she was
very glad to meet Mr. Van Bibber even under such peculiarly trying
circumstances.
"Now what you two want to do," said Van Bibber, addressing them as
though they were just about fifteen years old and he were at least
forty, "is to give this thing all the publicity you can."
"What?" chorused the two runaways, in violent protest.
"Certainly," said Van Bibber. "You were about to make a fatal mistake.
You were about to go to some unknown clergyman of an unknown parish,
who would have married you in a back room, without a certificate or a
witness, just like any eloping farmer's daughter and lightning-rod
agent. Now it's different with you two. Why you were not married
respectably in church I don't know, and I do not intend to ask, but a
kind Providence has sent me to you to see that there is no talk nor
scandal, which is such bad form, and which would have got your names
into all the papers. I am going to arrange this wedding properly, and
you will kindly remain here until I send a carriage for you. Now just
rely on me entirely and eat your luncheon in peace.
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