`` Married ! '' `` Yes , of course . Here we are in a state where no licence is required , a minister in the house , and you all dressed in the most beautiful wedding silk imaginable . You must see , if you just look at it calmly , how much better it will be than going up to Mrs. Kemble 's and thereby publishing your difference with Louisa to all the village . I 'll give you fifteen minutes to get used to the idea and then I 'll call Jim down . '' Mary Isabel put her hands to her face . `` You -- you 're like a whirlwind , '' she gasped . `` You take away my breath . '' `` Think it over , '' said the doctor in a businesslike voice . Mary Isabel thought -- thought very hard for a few moments . What would Tom have said ? Was it probable that Tom would have approved of such marrying in haste ? Mary Isabel came to the decision that he would have preferred it to having family jars bruited abroad . Moreover , Mary Isabel had never liked Ella Kemble very much . Going to her was only one degree better than going back to Louisa . At last Mary Isabel took her hands down from her face . `` Well ? '' said the doctor persuasively as she did so . `` I will consent on one condition , '' said Mary Isabel firmly . `` And that is , that you will let me send word over to Louisa that I am going to be married and that she may come and see the ceremony if she will .
Louisa has behaved very unkindly in this matter , but after all she is my sister -- and she has been good XXXXX me in some ways -- and I am not going to give her a chance to say that I got married in this -- this headlong-fashion and never let her know . ''
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