“It was a very happy journey. Excitement kept us all from feeling the least sense of fatigue. “About dawn we stopped at a wayside station. “‘Here we are,’ said Anglesea, as the guard called out the name of the place. “We alighted, and Anglesea, keeping up his rôle, proposed that we should go first to the hotel which stood on the other side of the track. “‘We must get washed, and combed, and fed, my children, before we can present ourselves before the minister,’ he said, speaking to us as if we were indeed children and he were quite a venerable party. He was, in truth, younger by a year than Saviola. “We went to the hotel, the ‘Victoria,’ where two rooms were engaged—one for me alone, and one for Anglesea and Savialo jointly. “I went to mine to refresh my toilet. I had never dressed myself without the help of a maid in my life, and hardly knew how to go about it. However, I rang for the chambermaid, and with her assistance I took a bath and made a change of clothes. “After this I went down and joined Anglesea and Saviola in the ladies’ parlor. They took me to breakfast in the coffee room; and soon after that we all three walked out in search of a minister. No marriage license was required in Scotland. “We found a church, with a parsonage adjoining. “We all three passed through the gate leading into the grounds before the house. “But only Anglesea went up to the door and rang the bell. “A servant maid opened to the summons. “Anglesea spoke to her, and both disappeared in the house, leaving the door ajar. “After a few minutes Anglesea reappeared at the door, and with a smile beckoned us to come in. “We entered the hall, and were immediately conducted by our ‘guide, philosopher and friend’ to the minister’s study on the right hand of the hall. “There stood a venerable man, with white hair, and clothed in clerical black, to receive us. “Very few questions were put to us, and our answers, mostly given through Anglesea, were satisfactory. “We were then asked to come up and take our stand before the minister. And in a very few minutes the marriage ceremony, which I believed had made us man and wife, was completed. “Then the old minister gave us a solemn lecture on the duties we had assumed. And then he made a fervent prayer for us, and ended by giving us his blessing. “Anglesea paid him a munificent fee, for which the old man gave him thanks. “‘And a marriage certificate, if you please, reverend sir. I am acting on the part of this young lady’s absent friends, and I must omit no necessary formality,’ said Anglesea. “The demand was unusual; the certificate was considered unnecessary. The old minister told us so, and added that he had no printed form and never had had any.