I wouldn't have blamed her for feeling dreadful bad over it--but you wouldn't have thought she'd be so selfish as to sacrifice her own flesh and blood because of it, would you?
Well, she was.
"And Leslie gave in--she loved her mother so much she would have done anything to save her pain.

She married Dick Moore.

None of us knew why at the time.

It wasn't till long afterward that I found out how her mother had worried her into it.

I was sure there was something wrong, though, because I knew how she had snubbed him time and again, and it wasn't like Leslie to turn face--about like that.