You've articulated perfectly what my thoughts on this, better than I've been doing - thanks for that.
As I've said elsewhere in these comments, it's that both horses were bought at the same time with the Last Ditch that makes me uncomfortable. If Mrs. Marlow had sold her own tiara to buy herself a horse, that wouldn't bother me a bit. Or if she'd sold it to buy two horses for the children, say one for Ginty, and one for the twins to share, or for Lawrie and Peter, since Nicola has more-or-less permanent usage of Mr. Buster, that wouldn't have made me turn a hair. It's just that it's such a huge one-off thing that none of the others get a share in. It picks Ginty out from the others.
I also wonder if Karen felt a pang about the tiara - as the eldest daughter, she may well have expected to inherit such a valuable piece of family jewellery. Obviously this is purely specualtion; there's no textual evidence for this.
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Date: 2005-08-30 10:15 pm (UTC)As I've said elsewhere in these comments, it's that both horses were bought at the same time with the Last Ditch that makes me uncomfortable. If Mrs. Marlow had sold her own tiara to buy herself a horse, that wouldn't bother me a bit. Or if she'd sold it to buy two horses for the children, say one for Ginty, and one for the twins to share, or for Lawrie and Peter, since Nicola has more-or-less permanent usage of Mr. Buster, that wouldn't have made me turn a hair. It's just that it's such a huge one-off thing that none of the others get a share in. It picks Ginty out from the others.
I also wonder if Karen felt a pang about the tiara - as the eldest daughter, she may well have expected to inherit such a valuable piece of family jewellery. Obviously this is purely specualtion; there's no textual evidence for this.