Mail Order Valentine

<p>Clara has found romance adventure and love through the matrimonial columns. I could do the same could I not?<br>She was not yet betrothed to Cotter Finlay but Ella knew the time for him to ask her father for his permission was nigh. <br>But Cotter Finlay cannot engage me if I am promised to another can he? It was just as Clara said-if I am betrothed to another breaking off such an engagement would look poorly upon my parents.<br>It was in that moment that Elle made the decision. <br>By next year on St. Valentine's Day she too would be heading west to wed a man of adventure.</p>