He proposed to Alice Weston. She refused him. 'It's not because I'm not fond of you. I think you're the nicest man I ever met.' A good deal of assiduous attention had enabled Henry to win this place in her affections. He had worked patiently and well before actually putting his fortune to the test. 'I'd marry you tomorrow if things were different. But I'm on the stage, and I mean to stick there. Most of the girls want to get off it, but not me. And one thing I'll never do is marry someone who isn't in the profession. My sister Genevieve did, and look what happened to her. She married a commercial traveller, and take it from me he travelled.
Henry proposed to Alice Weston, but she turned him down despite her fondness for him. She acknowledged that he was the nicest man she had ever met, which reflects the effort he put into earning her affection over time. However, she firmly expressed her ambition to remain on stage and her unwillingness to marry someone outside of her profession, citing her sister's unhappy marriage as a cautionary example.
Alice's decision highlights...
