When Janis married Perry Caton, after a very short acquaintance, she was in no doubt as to what she was doing.
It was a marriage of convenience. If he did not marry by a certain date, Perry would lose his inheritance and the family home he loved above everything else; Janis was alone in the world and penniless, so what, really, had she to lose? In any case, Perry had made it clear that in due course they would “do the obvious thing” about the situation, and Janis understood what he meant by that.
As time went on, she began to feel that it would be no hardship to put her marriage on a normal footing, until it began to dawn on her that perhaps that was not what Perry had meant at all.
It was a marriage of convenience. If he did not marry by a certain date, Perry would lose his inheritance and the family home he loved above everything else; Janis was alone in the world and penniless, so what, really, had she to lose? In any case, Perry had made it clear that in due course they would “do the obvious thing” about the situation, and Janis understood what he meant by that.
As time went on, she began to feel that it would be no hardship to put her marriage on a normal footing, until it began to dawn on her that perhaps that was not what Perry had meant at all.
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