I'm not saying it wasn't Mrs. Marlow's to do with as she wished; just that I don't think it was a sensible expenditure.
She sold a frivolous thing she wasn't using to buy herself a horse, when she likes to ride and is living in the country with stables, fodder, and labour available at essentially no cost. That seems a perfectly sensible expenditure, unless you wish to argue it's not sensible for her to ever spend any money on herself when she could save it for emergencies.
Buying Ginty a horse might not be the most sensible expenditure, but on the other hand... Ginty likes to ride and is good at riding: she'll make use of having a horse: it will mean Ginty gets out into fresh air and exercises, which is something I suspect she might not do otherwise, especially in the winter: and while you're right that in terms of strict age seniority it ought to have been Karen (thanks for correcting me), it's also possible that Karen was asked and said no, she wouldn't make use of a horse that much - of course, if she'd known she was going to be living at Trennels with a husband and ready-made family, she might have said something different.
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Date: 2005-08-30 05:32 pm (UTC)She sold a frivolous thing she wasn't using to buy herself a horse, when she likes to ride and is living in the country with stables, fodder, and labour available at essentially no cost. That seems a perfectly sensible expenditure, unless you wish to argue it's not sensible for her to ever spend any money on herself when she could save it for emergencies.
Buying Ginty a horse might not be the most sensible expenditure, but on the other hand... Ginty likes to ride and is good at riding: she'll make use of having a horse: it will mean Ginty gets out into fresh air and exercises, which is something I suspect she might not do otherwise, especially in the winter: and while you're right that in terms of strict age seniority it ought to have been Karen (thanks for correcting me), it's also possible that Karen was asked and said no, she wouldn't make use of a horse that much - of course, if she'd known she was going to be living at Trennels with a husband and ready-made family, she might have said something different.