Awakened Heart, chapter 7

It's rare for a Betts heroine to have a shopping spree without the Betts hero paying for it, but aided by a check from her father, Sophie manages to do this. She buys a jersey outfit, natch, a brown and gold brocade blouse, and a wide-skirted dress for the evening. Betts heroines rarely, if ever, wear a sheath.
Also, Sophie settles on a winter-white wedding dress, complete with coat and hat. This reminds me of the Dowager Duchess in Sayers's Busman's Honeymoon who rambles on about Jane Eyre, "who I always think behaved so ungraciously to that poor man - so gloomy to have your bride, however bigamous, insisting on grey alpaca or merino or whatever it was, and damping to a lover's feelings..." (Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon, 5 October in the Prothalamion).
Rijk arranges for a choir and flowers at the wedding, and then flowers again when they arrive at his home in Friesland. So his feelings can't have been too dampened. It's worth noting that every Betts hero and heroine who have an arranged marriage make an agreement not "to live as man and wife", at least for a while. There's one Betts, can't remember which, where the Betts wife says that she's glad that they're married on the last page, with the fairly strong hint that she's looking forward to sleeping with him. But not Sophie and Rijk.
Rijk makes it clear that he'll be returning to work within a day or so, so there will be no honeymoon. Frighteningly, this quotation comes as an epiphany (not as a given) to her: "She suspected that he [Rijk] expected her to have her own interests when he was away..." (p. 146). Sophie takes the reins of the house, insofar as a Betts heroine ever does: she inspects the linen, does some tapestry work and knitting, and takes over some light shopping.
She probably also arranges the flowers, consults with the cook about the meals, and helps with some children's charity in the village, but we don't hear about it. All those are typical activities of the Betts wife.
At the end of the chapter, she goes to meet Rijk at work, but she sees him driving away in the other direction with - gasp! - an attractive woman. I'll be astonished if jealousy isn't one of my tags tomorrow.