"I'm not doing this to add to her misery, Elijah. I'm doing this to give her a new chance of a happy, dignified life. We're lookin' for someone. Actually Elijah..." He rubbed his brow. "Don't get angry when I suggest this. I wouldn't ask it now if I wasn't desperate. I know you can do... better now, but before, you said you don't want to marry because you feel you are too busy with your job and wouldn't be able to make a wife happy. Well, Alice has little to expect of life now, but a whole lot to gain from such a match. I know I'm asking beyond what I can ask of ye, but might you not take her as yer wife and claim t' child?"