James kept sending messages to the girl to come and see him, and at last Rebecca asked him to state what he wanted of her.

"Tell him that I am not a man. I cannot come alone to see him. That is not proper;

James sent back word that he wanted to marry her. She told him that she was already engaged and that nothing would ever separate her from her fiancé, except God.

'I have grown up to think of William as my husband; my parents and the parents of William arranged it all when I was a with Adrian family, was the message she sent him.

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