"No, he didn't. He only said he was busy."
"He said only grown people got married."
"But he didn't say children couldn't if they wanted to."
In the maiden's face came a brighter look. "Yes, that is true, isn't
it?"
"'Course it is! And we will be doing something new and different. It
makes folks famous to be the first to do things. Look at Christopher
Columbus, and look at Benjamin Franklin, the first man to fly a kite
and steer lightnin' and make it mind him."
"Was he married when he was a child?"
"Nobody knows. But if you and I are the first children to get
married--the very first, why our pictures might be in history books."