The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 14 Page 10

James, you know how often after the best you could do and all their promises, they go back to it?”

“I admit it’s always a question. They don’t seem to be content in the low country. I think it is often a sort of natural gravitation back to the mountains where they were born and bred, more than it is depravity.”

“I know, James, but that excuse won’t help Cassandra.”

“Why did she do it?” asked David. “She must have known to what such a marriage would bring her.”

“Do it? That is the sort of girl she is. If she thought she ought, she would leap over that fall there.”

“But why should she think she ought? Had she given her —