My idea was that he'd bust up the elopement.

"Do you contemplate an elopement?

For one thing, it established the theory that he had been planning an elopement with the woman in the taxicab.

A vivid description of the pantomimic courtship preceding an elopement has been given by Kubary (Globus, 1885).

So he went to the station that night to prevent the elopement.

think it is the height of virtue not to elope with a married man, who has entirely and deliberately deceived you, and adds to the wrong of deceit the insult of proposing an elopement!

On the other hand we find three somewhat similar ballads, Lizie Lindsay or Donald of the Isles, Lizie Baillie, and Glasgow Peggie, recording the elopement of a town girl with a highland gentleman in the disguise of a shepherd.

The Nez Percés so bitterly resent elopements that they consider the bride in such a case as a prostitute and her parents may seize upon the man's property.

If her father prefers another she will have to take him, unless her lover is ready to risk an elopement.