How does the author use foreshadowing in A Reliable Wife?

The narrative begins with businessman Ralph Truitt waiting, alone and cold on a wintry train platform, for his mail order bride to arrive. At the same time, that bride, Catherine Land, contemplates the challenge ahead of her: to suppress her own extravagant personality and desires in order to be the kind of demure "reliable" wife Truitt believes her to be. This foreshadows both internal and external conflicts for both characters.