Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.
Table of contents has been added and placed into the public domain by the transcriber.
Due to a typographical error, an incorrect line of text (duplicated from an earlier page) was printed on page 36 of the book used as the basis for this edition. This has been replaced here with the correct phrase: “never left him. What would she say when she learnt” which was sourced from an overseas serialization of the work under the title Married in Haste, with the correct text located in the Wednesday, April 5, 1899 issue of The Maryborough Chronicle newspaper.