It seems more like she's marrying for money instead of love. Gabriel must be the man she loves, because why else would she keep everything he sent her- including his letters. She probably keep them if they were from a man she was going to use for money.
When she's saying things like "soon they will twist it at the shoulder and fix the clasp against my neck and i do not think you would know her", she's talking about herself on her wedding day, and she will be unlike to the girl he met in the orchard.
It seems like she and Gabriel were secret lovers, which is why she makes reference to his letters, telling him to "tread carefully" because she is soon to be a married woman...and why she wants to fold him up into her pocket like a "secret ribbon" (I don't know if that's a euphemism or not...)
It seems she's saying goodbye to her childhood sweetheart and is growing into a woman of society he wouldn't recognize.
It seems more like she's marrying for money instead of love. Gabriel must be the man she loves, because why else would she keep everything he sent her- including his letters. She probably keep them if they were from a man she was going to use for money.
When she's saying things like "soon they will twist it at the shoulder and fix the clasp against my neck and i do not think you would know her", she's talking about herself on her wedding day, and she will be unlike to the girl he met in the orchard.
It seems like she and Gabriel were secret lovers, which is why she makes reference to his letters, telling him to "tread carefully" because she is soon to be a married woman...and why she wants to fold him up into her pocket like a "secret ribbon" (I don't know if that's a euphemism or not...)
It seems she's saying goodbye to her childhood sweetheart and is growing into a woman of society he wouldn't recognize.