In one respect, however, there was a marked difference.

So long as home conditions had remained unchanged, Lilla was content to put ambition far from her, and to settle down to the life which had been hers as long as she could remember.

But Mimi's marriage set her thinking; naturally, she came to the conclusion that she too might have a mate.

There was not for her much choice--there was little movement in the matrimonial direction at the farmhouse.

She did not approve of the personality of Edgar Caswall, and his struggle with Mimi had frightened her; but he was unmistakably an excellent _parti_, much better than she could have any right to expect.
This weighs much with a woman, and more particularly one of her class.
So, on the whole, she was content to let things take their course, and to abide by the issue.
As time went on, she had reason to believe that things did not point to happiness.