She went to London and began studying music.

Soon she grew to be a fine singer, so she joined a company and came to this country.
"When the younger son found that she had left London, he followed her.
When she got here all alone, and afraid, and saw him coming to her, why, she was so glad she up and married him, just like anybody else would have done.

He didn't want her to travel with the troupe, so when they reached Chicago they thought that would be a good place, and they stopped, while he hunted work.

It was slow business, because he never had been taught to do a useful thing, and he didn't even know how to hunt work, least of all to do it when he found it; so pretty soon things were going wrong.

But if he couldn't find work, she could always sing, so she sang at night, and made little things in the daytime.