"I didn't plan on being sneaky!" Arthur spun around to look at Edmund. "I didn't plan on any of it. I was just passing through Dancing Lawn, to visit the Weils like I always do when I'm in the area. But she was so upset. You should have seen the boar her father wanted her to marry." Arthur shook his head as he walked over to the desk and sat down across from Ed.
"She was planning on running away anyway. Begged me to take her away. Anywhere. And I couldn't very well steal her away in the night and not marry her." Arthur got a far away look in his eye as he thought back to all those letters from her, and how the room seemed to light up when she walked into it. He shook his head. "Anyway, Peter can say what he wants. Technically, I've known Genie longer than I've known any of you...and apparently, she knows your dear Arlise, which was quite the surprise for both of us, I think." His thoughts wandered to last night, Genie sobbing in his arms. She had believed Arlise to be dead.