Mother took his arm, and looked at him affectionately. "I never knew you were so sentimental," she whispered. 

"No, no," he said, choking back his tears, "that's not it at all. Remember when your father found us in the barn and told me to either marry you or spend the next 50 years in jail?" 

"Yes," my mother replied. "I remember it like yesterday." 

"Well," said my father, "today I would have be a free man."