Dick sighed. He'd felt it coming, he knew her too well not to expect her to leave. "Look, we're... married." The word felt foreign in his mouth. "And I understand that you're afraid of that because of... whatever reason you have. You don't believe in it, it's dumb, it doesn't matter. But the fact is that you don't have anything to be afraid of. We've been married for the past couple of months, and we have lived exactly as we did before. Sure, we didn't know it, but do you think that would have changed anything?"
He stood up and placed his hand on Carrie's shoulder. "If you don't want to be married to me, then we'll go down to City Hall first thing tomorrow morning and you won't be. If you don't ever want to be married to me, I won't pressure you. That's a promise. But I'm afraid that if you run away now, right now... you might not come back."