Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"Well, it's just this, Saxon. I like you like anything an' all
that, but here's night come on, an' we're a thousand miles from
anywhere, and--well, what I wanta know is: are we really an'
truly married, you an' me?"

"Really and truly," she assured him. "Why?"

"Oh, nothing; but I'd kind a-forgotten, an' I was gettin'
embarrassed, you know, because if we wasn't, seein' the way I was
brought up, this'd be no place--"