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They had to wait two hours for the parliamentary train , which came heavily puffing in about five o'clock on that November morning . `` Young Whyte took second class tickets , and led his closely veiled companion to her seat on the train . And they moved off . `` They reached Glasgow about ten o'clock the next day , and found that there was a steamer bound for New York , to sail at noon . No time was to be lost , so they both went to the agency together , represented themselves as a newly married pair , and engaged the only stateroom to be procured -- which happened to be in the second cabin . Their tickets were filled in with the names of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Whyte -- which indeed constituted a legal marriage in Scotland , where a marriageable pair of lovers have only to declare themselves man and wife , in the presence of competent witnesses , to be as lawfully married as if the ceremony had been performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his own cathedral . `` They took possession of their stateroom on the Caledonian , which sailed at noon of the same day , and in due time arrived at New York .