so then i promised to wait for him to the end of time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. ‘why shouldn’t we be married right away, then,’ said he, ‘and then i will feel sure of you; and i won’t claim to be your husband until i come back?’ well, we talked it over, and he had fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, that we just did it right there; and then frank went off to seek his fortune, and i went back to pa.