I, too, thought it a fantastic story. It was a different time and place. Her father died at 69 -- Gertrude was 13 and her brother 1. Obviously older man married younger woman.

Gertrude was disabled -- in a time when that could be a sentence for loneliness.

And it was a love match. Maybe not what I would chose...but a fascinating look at history none the less! A world long gone.