I knew nothing, and I was married to a man of whom I knew nothing.

It was my mother's doing, and no doubt she thought that she was acting for the very best.

She was securing for me a position of a kind, and comfort and release from any danger of poverty.

I accepted what she said blindly, ignorantly.

I could hardly have refused, indeed, for my mother was an imperious woman, and I was accustomed to obedience.