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.

She and Carter then proceeded joyfully to waste his three thousand
dollars with that contempt for money with which on a honey-moon it
should always be regarded. When there was no more, Dolly called
upon her mother's lawyers and inquired if her father had left her
anything in her own right. The lawyers regretted he had not, but