for the details about money--makes everything much clearer. Makes me feel even sorrier for Miss Morton and others like her. In the marriage mart, she--her person, her ideas, her character--is a cipher; she is the money. Oh I know things were not so black and white--maybe the rich Miss Morton was a dreadful girl--but I think it's difficult for us, here in the 21st century, to imagine the powerlessness of women of a certain class; you had to hope that your father, and then your husband, were good men. Of course, all of this makes for some excellent novels!