Not a word of news came for a year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really dead.

Then Lord St.Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank.
"Still, if I had married Lord St.Simon, of course I'd have done my duty by him.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

I went to the altar with him with the intention to make him just as good a wife as it was in me to be.

But you may imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the first pew.