But wasn't there any other way?
Why couldn't you have made them happy ?" "Then it wouldn't have been a tragedy." "Perhaps not.

But what prevented them marrying ?" "Amanda, not knowing Stephen loved her, had married another man whom she didn't care for." "I see.

There was a husband in the way.

Still it would have been wiser for her to have left him and run away with Stephen.

It certainly would have been more in the mode." "Not on the stage.