A Little Love for Poor Liza

One night, while walking with her dog, young Liza met a man who, after several brief encounters, proposed to her. And Liza, without much thought, agreed. She dreamed of escaping from her home! She felt like an outsider in her... family - her older sister hated her, her mother, ensconced in a years-long depression, never cared or protected her... In short, escaping with the first person to offer to take her under his wing seemed to Liza to be salvation. So, she got married. She had a daughter and began to call her husband only this: beloved. But did she really love him? Did her husband love Liza? Answers to these questions only came four years later, when the daughter grew a little and the family idyll came to an abrupt end.