She is in love with Hugh, and Hugh she must have.

The spoiled baby is tired of all its old toys, and wants a new one." "And she married this masked man, and never saw him?
That is odd." "The whole affair is excessively odd.

You know how impatient she naturally is.

She grew desperate in her confinement in a few days, and was ready to sell her birthright for a mess of pottage--ready to sacrifice her freedom in one way for her freedom in another.

She had the man's promise that he would return her to her friends a week after she became his wife.