Dinah Shtettin's father approved neither of theater nor of Adler, but did little to restrict his daughter's wishes. He stated, "Let it be a divorce tomorrow, but marriage it must be!" The couple married in 1887, after which Adler left with the troupe to travel to the United States. After a return to London for seven months, he once again journeyed to New York in 1889 and was shortly followed by Dinah. Their daughter Celia was born in New York later that year. Shtettin divorced Adler when he ran off with Sara Heine two years later in 1891.