When she was only fifteen, there was a man at my brother Gardiner's in town so much in love with her that my sister-in-law was sure he would make her an offer before we came away. But, however, he did not.
A peine âgée de quinze ans, elle a rencontré a Londres, chez mon frere Gardiner, un monsieur a qui elle plut tellement que ma belle-sour s’attendait a ce qu’il la demandât en mariage.