human
Then what . . . what are we to do?
gpt
Do? Our duty to ourselves, my darling, that's what we have to do. If we cannot be married according to the law of the Church, we must be married according to the law of the land. Isn't that enough? This is our own affair, dearest, ours and nobody else's. It's only a witness we want anyway--a witness before God and man that we intend to be man and wife in future.
human
But Father Dan?
gpt
Leave him to me, said Martin.
human
I'll tell him everything. But come into the house now. You are catching a cold. Unless we take care they'll kill you before they've done.
gpt
I've seen Father Dan.
human
Well?
gpt
The old angel took it badly. 'God forbid that you should do that same, my boy,' he said, 'putting both yourself and that sweet child of mine out of the Church for ever.' 'It's the Church that's putting us out,' I told him. 'But God's holy law condemns it, my son,' he said. 'God's law is love; and He has no other law,' I answered.