Note 89 — A GIRL’S LIFE EIGHTY YEARS AGO (continued 4)
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Mary, oldest daughter of Robert Watts and his wife Lady Mary Alexander, married Dr. Romaine, who left her a widow after a few years of married life. At the age of seventy-three Mrs. Romaine married her first love, Peter Bertram Cruger, a widower with eight children. Miss Watts’s engagement to Dr. Romaine was a surprise to her friends, who knew of her attachment to Mr. Cruger.