Marriage broker David Knabel says he advertises women who went to college and have professional jobs.
VOA: special.2011.02.14
On top of that, Marenka is told about the deal that Jenik has made with Kecal, the marriagebroker that he's agreed to let Marenka marry "the son of Micha" in return for 300 gulden.
But as a study of the larger-than-life figure who served as broker of the strange, complex and conflicted marriage between America and Arabia, Mr Ottaway's work is surely definitive.