After receiving his letter she had run over on what she had told herself was a vain chance.  Though angry enough when that letter first reached her, she had, with that force of character which marked her, declared to herself that such a resolution on his part was natural.  In marrying her he must give up all his old allies, all his old haunts.  The whole world must be changed to him.  She knew enough of herself, and enough of Englishwomen, to be sure that when her past life should be known, as it would be known, she would be avoided in England.  With all the little ridicule she was wont to exercise in speaking of the old country there was ever mixed, as is so often the case in the minds of American men and women, an almost envious admiration of English...