Maltese authorities were ignorant of the disabilities of British Nonconformists at common law, and they had not perceived that persons with a British domicile could not evade their own laws by marrying in Malta, e.g.
It's a good thing he didn't know you were marrying me, then.
In marrying her without loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.
I'm not marrying you because I need someone to wipe my nose.