I've been down on my knees to her to be married before it came to this." "Why wouldn't she ?" "I don't know, oh, I don't know! The poor girl was near distracted.
Her mother forbade her to marry me, and held up her Aunt Rebecca, who married against her parents' wishes and hung herself, before her, all the time.

Your trouble with Charlotte Barnard brought it all about.
Her mother never opposed it before.

I begged her to marry me, but she was afraid, or something, I don't know what." "Can't you drive faster ?" said Barney.
William had been urging the horse while he spoke, but now he shook the whip over him again.
Mrs.Jim Sloane's house was a long, unpainted cottage quite near the road.

The woman who lived alone there was under a kind of indefinite ban in the village.

Her husband, who had died several years before, had been disreputable and drunken, and the mantle of his disgrace had seemed to fall upon his wife, if indeed she was not already provided with such a mantle of her own.