![]() ![]() Though they barely even speak to each other, Dirk falls completely in love with Ariah. In this vigil she is accompanied by Dirk Burnaby, a confirmed playboy bachelor and successful lawyer. Now a determined if abandoned bride, she begins a seven-day vigil in the mist at The Falls waiting for Gilbert's body to be found. Inexperienced with men, "ungainly and gawky as a stork," Ariah is nevertheless an accomplished pianist, singer and music teacher who had almost accepted her fate as a spinster and would have exchanged her soul for an engagement ring. Gilbert, after his disastrous wedding night, believes he has lived "a day and a night too long" and, knowing that God won't forgive him, determines God will at least know him as he is: gay. His 29-year-old wife, Ariah Littrell, herself the daughter of a Presbyterian minister of Old Testament temperament, thus becomes a bride and a widow in less than 24 hours. ![]() Gilbert Erslome throws himself into Horseshoe Falls at Niagara. ![]() The Falls begins June 12, 1950, one hour after dawn, when the Rev. ![]()
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