It is certain she had not been quite successful as a girl.

Though she had enjoyed the name of being a beauty, she had not the usual success which comes from such repute.
At thirty-four she was still unmarried.

She had, moreover, acquired the character of being a flirt; and I fear that the stories which were told of her, though doubtless more than half false, had in them sufficient of truth to justify the character.

Now this was very sad, seeing that Arabella Vavasor had no fortune, and that she had offended her father and brothers by declining to comply with their advice at certain periods of her career.

There was, indeed, considerable trouble in the minds of the various male Vavasors with reference to Arabella, when tidings suddenly reached the Hall that she was going to be married to an old man.
She was married to the old man; and the marriage fortunately turned out satisfactorily, at any rate for the old man and for her family.
The Vavasors were relieved from all further trouble, and were as much surprised as gratified when they heard that she did her duty well in her new position.