Their favourite remedy for feminine caprice was marriage, and they soon had the satisfaction of seeing Miss Grenfell become Mrs.Froude.There were some difficulties in the way, for Froude's prospects were by no means assured, and Mrs.Kingsley felt occasional scruples.

But Froude had confidence in himself, and when his mind was made up he would not look back.
"You remember," he wrote to Mrs.Kingsley, in 1849, "I warned you that I intended to take my own way in life, doing (as I always have done) in all important matters just what I should think good, at whatever risk of consequences, and taking no other person's opinion when it crossed with my own.

Now in this matter I feel certain that the way to save Charlotte most pain is to shorten the struggle, and that will be best done by being short, peremptory, and decided in allowing no dictation and no interference ....

Charlotte herself is really magnificent.

Every letter shows me larger nobleness of heart.
You cannot go back now, Mrs.Kingsley." Mrs.Kingsley did not go back, and Froude had his way.