They didn't know him.

It was more likely he'd marry her because she was plain, with a face like a horse, and was head over ears in love with him.

I will say that for Matilda.

She was desperately in love with her husband, although no one would believe now that she had ever been in love with anybody." Lady Drummond delayed about coming to her guests.

Lady Anne tapped an impatient small foot on the floor.
"She's heckling someone now--take my word for it," she said.
Then her face wrinkled up, shrewdly humorous.
"What are you thinking, child ?" she asked.