The Barrayaran system of using go-betweens to make marital arrangements was beginning to look better all the time.
To be sure, not just marital arrangements but business relations are sometimes colored by caste.
Part of the function of looking at marriage from a sociological perspective is to give insight into the reason behind various marital arrangements.
Your precipitate marital arrangements are going to cause me a considerable headache but believe me I wish you well.
But a pilot, being even more of a traveling man than your usual Gypsy, generally doesn't tend to establish really sound marital arrangements.
The rest of his characters pose greater challenges and allow him to ponder more complex marital arrangements.
People would investigate you closer, maybe unearth your unusual marital arrangement.
Why would anyone, let alone a young bride in the conservative Eisenhower era, consent to be part of such an unconventional marital arrangement?
Next to nothing is known about Kim's marital arrangements; it is not clear if his second and third wives were, in fact, mistresses.
These marital arrangements resulted in his promotion to the courtesy title of chamberlain.