The hawk and the dove

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? I n 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.