"And he also knew you wanted to marry Paul?"

'I wouldn't mind marrying Paul,' said the blond girl of the pair.

After all these years, did her mother still feel some regret she hadn't married Paul?

"What made you finally decide to marry Paul?"

Apparently lost in fantasy, she married Paul while he was still incarcerated.

I think she'd have married Paul in the end.

She'd have had to get a different job or - marry Paul.

Yet if she did not marry Paul, and had the baby, things would be worse rather than better.

Betsy, on the other hand, desires to marry Paul.

Twenty years ago, when she had married Paul, she should have told him about her year with the carnival.