It was my fear of her simple trustful disposition which led me to urge her to marry me secretly before I left England with Turold.

Her parents did not favour me, and they wished their daughter to marry well--there was an aunt from whom she had expectations, and the aunt had a prospective husband in view for her.

I feared their joint influence.

She consented willingly enough; she was easy to persuade--on the eve of our parting.

She clung to me weeping--her husband.
"I was to make enough money to return to England to claim her in a year or so--that was the plan.