Suspicion

If she had ever thought it herself, heiress Lina McLaidlaw receives confirmation that others close to her believe she is destined to become a spinster because of her mousy appearance and demeanor. That's why she falls so hard for Johnnie Aysgarth when he shows a romantic interest in her; he runs in her social class and seems to attract the eyes of many young women with his easy charm and good looks. That romantic interest is a change from their first meeting when he paid her no real attention despite her helping him out of a jam. So her answer is an immediate yes when he asks her to marry him soon after; they elope so nobody can try to talk her out of it. Only after they're officially married does Lina learn that he has no money and has been living off whatever schemes he came up with except actually working at an honest job, although he loves the high life that money can buy. Despite catching him in lies of omission and direct lies, Lina does not believe that he married her solely for what money she would eventually inherit; if money from his wife was his motivation, there were bigger fish in the ocean. Even admissions from Johnnie's friend Beaky of "Johnnie being Johnnie" in his ease of coming up with excuses for his irresponsible lifestyle does not seem to diminish her love for him. But she then suspects him of wanting to murder her for her money.