He gave a small shake of his head. So that was a no, then.

"So why are you marrying him, then?" he asked. He was aware that women married for all sorts of reasons other than love, but he couldn't imagine marriage being a subject Juliana took lightly. She was independent—she had a job, she was clever. She didn't strike him as the type of woman who needed to marry to feel whole, and he couldn't imagine she was getting married because of societal expectations, either.

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