Up until her early twenties, her life was typical of most young women of her time, except that she was not someone’s wife. Coming home to her fathers’ house one day, she found that she was betrothed, though sold would be a better word, to a man from an affluent family. She loathed Gleis Taggart and staying true to herself, she refused to marry. Feeling the embarrassment of being jilted, the bride-groom demanded death but her not-to-be father-in-law thought that too good for her; that her pain and suffering would be over before it had a chance to start, as they saw it for Gleis.