Resume of a story, i need some corrections, would you help me?

This story is about Baptista, a young woman who was a teacher; she didn't like teaching. She had agreed to marry to the oldest familiy's oldest friend, Mr Heddegan. and When she was heading back to his house she met with her friend, Charles, who was a pretender. Charles asked her to marry her him and Baptista acepted. 
On the same day of the wedding, Charles drowned in the sea so the woman almost immediatly married to Mr Heddegan. Some time after, the witness of her first marriage discovered her secret, she couldn't put up with the witness's bribes and told her husband the truth. Mr Heddegan told her a secret too, he had four daughters. At first, Baptista didn't like the girls. Time passed and she grew to love them.