So she married George, and Edward's heart came very near breaking, as well as her own.

Agreed, but as far as I know she didn't have to marry George.

Sixty years ago she was to marry George.

She married George, and they went teaching together.

Louise would tell her friends she wanted to marry George but didn't think he would commit.

How I wished that she had not married George.

He has never married; we are led to assume that the great love of his life was Rose's mother, who chose to marry George.

Maybe I ought to marry George and be done with it.

"I'm not going to marry, George, you know that."

I married George because he represented safety to me.