She called day after day seeking for a change of mind, and delayed her own journey to the continent more than once.

At length, when it became evident that the extraction of Mr.Barrett's consent was hopeless, she reluctantly began her own tour in Europe alone.

She went to Paris, and had not been there many days, when she received a formal call from Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who had been married for some days.

Her astonishment is rather a picturesque thing to think about.
The manner in which this sensational elopement, which was, of course, the talk of the whole literary world, had been effected, is narrated, as every one knows, in the Browning Letters.

Browning had decided that an immediate marriage was the only solution; and having put his hand to the plough, did not decline even when it became obviously necessary that it should be a secret marriage.