“Papa, I’m not. How could I be? If you and Mama hadn’t done what you did, I wouldn’t have been born. The both of you, and Miss Lorna, too—you knew that the law was wrong, and you did what you had to do.” “That was different.” “How?” “The law should stay out of a man’s personal business. As long as I wasn’t forcing your mama to marry me, it oughtn’t to be anyone’s business but hers and mine. And our families’.”
