He now saw her in the office of a registrar licensed to perform marriages, for he was sure that a girl like that would not want one of those ghastly choral weddings with bishops and assistant clergy horsing around all over the place. They would get it all fixed up in a couple of minutes, and later on they would sit together in their cozy little nest like two lovebirds on a perch. In the long winter evenings that would be, of course. In the summer they would be playing golf or enjoying a refreshing swim.
It was as his mind's eye was probing even more deeply into their domestic life that there came to him the realization that there was an obstacle, and a rather serious one, in the way of the bliss he was contemplating. He suddenly remembered what for the moment had slipped his mind, that he waws engaged to be married to someone else.
(from The Girl in Blue, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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