In her John Blake perceived the exact _parti_ whom he desired for a wife.
It is not necessary to follow the pitiful story to its inevitable end, one, happily, more common at that time than it is to-day.

Mr.Blake played the earnest, ardent lover, and on all occasions proclaimed his own unworthiness at the top of his loud voice.

Also he hinted at large settlements to the married sisters, who put the matter before Jane very plainly indeed.

In the end, after a few words with her father, who pointed out that the provision which could be made for her was but small, and that he would die more happily if he knew her to be comfortably settled in life with a really trustworthy and generous man such as Mr.Blake had proved himself to be, she gave way, and in due course they were married.
In fact, the tragedy was complete, since Jane loathed her husband, whose real nature she had read from the beginning, as much as she adored the high-church curate from whom in some terrible hour she parted with broken words.

Even when he died a few years later, she continued to adore him, so much that her one hope was that she might meet him again in the land where there is no marrying or giving in marriage.