They pressed him, in letters still extant, to propose.

We have seen how he was situated, and can understand how he persuaded himself that fortune, after all, was about to smile upon him.

Her family had their own reasons for promoting the match, and all united in hastening on the event.
In the Notes to Exhibitions added to a new edition of "Modern Painters," then in the Press, the author mentions a "hurried visit to Scotland in the spring" of 1848.

This was the occasion of his marriage at Perth, on April 10.

The young couple spent rather more than a fortnight on the way South, among Scotch and English lakes, intending to make a more extended tour in the summer to the cathedrals and abbeys.
The pilgrimage began with Salisbury, where a few days' sketching in the damp and draughts of the cathedral laid the bridegroom low, and brought the tour to an untimely end.