Marryable

The girl smiled up into his face: "And in all sincerity I will say that in all your life you have never seemed so—so marryable as you do right now."

He had done his best to look like one of Kurt's friends, but one of the nice ones, one of the marryable ones, and De Courcy's best was a sophisticated one.

"And your fair niece, whom I once met... Ah, is she still sans husband? She should hurry. [...] I always thought her eminently marryable, however."

The great and embarrassing disappointment of my life thus far has been the not getting married thing. [...] I still want it so much. And if that sounds crazy to some, since I'm currently thirty-three and still very marryable, it may help to know the expectations in the conservative Christian world in which I was raised.