Describe the relationship between Monks' parents, according to Mr. Brownlow. Was this a marriage of love, or arrangement?

Mr. Brownlow also had been betrothed to Leeford’s aunt, but she had died on the morning of their wedding day. Leeford’s father, Edwin Leeford, had been forced into a very unhappily marriage to Leeford’s mother when he was very young, and they had eventually separated.