[…] for 15 years Miss Lulu Bett, a stereotypical spinster and poor relation, has been slaving in her married sister's home as an unindentured cook and housemaid.

It was the nicest-looking property Elwood had ever seen—a real school, a good one, not the forbidding reformatory he’d conjured the last few weeks.

“Helluv it is,” he grumbled. “I was thinking of marrying her myself. Wrote her a letter, but it didn't get posted in time.”

his eyes were heavy with sleep; she was heavy with child