This did not mean that I was contemplating matrimony at some remote time.

Young Beaudry was not contemplating matrimony.

Once, when two practical jokers had sent in a marriage notice of persons not even contemplating matrimony, he wrote:

I'm not what is called contemplating matrimony at the moment; but I've considered the possibility, and it doesn't appall me.

Quin, having but recently recovered from the fear that she was contemplating matrimony, now underwent a similar torture at her avowal that she was not.

"I didn't know you were contemplating matrimony," she observed.