Talk:Desire & Decorum, Book 3 Choices/@comment-39214588-20191110183858/@comment-3452092-20191110184655

I'm not fully understanding your questions and I haven't read the chapter yet, but during that time frame in Britain/England two women could not marry and technically it was also illegal for two men (it's a little unclear on two women) to be in a physical relationship with each other. As such if Miss Parson is your love interest, Mr. Chambers offered to marry you to help both you and him (since he's in love with a man which is definitely illegal during that time period). Pixelberry plays a bit lax with the facts of the time period on the subject making people more accepting than they might otherwise be (especially people like Tristan Richards who personality wise would have turned Mr. Chambers in and yet all he did was mock and tease him about it), but they still have it so that if you are with Miss Parsons, you marry Mr. Chambers which is why you take his last name. You aren't married to her. You are married to him, even if you are not interested in him at all.

Does that help?