Re: Marry In Haste - Chapter 5

A few things about Sir George - and George as well, I guess. But Sir George first. He does come across as very pushing and manipulative, I know, and he certainly is doing his utmost to make George and Sarah marry. The scheme has been on his mind for some time; he knows George can't afford to marry for love but will have to marry for money, and there's this heiress on his hands so ... If he had the time to go about this properly he would, I think. He'd make sure they met often, he'd give them plenty of time to become acquainted, and he probably wouldn't insist on a quick marriage as he's doing now. He wouldn't insist on them marrying at all, even, and would be quite satisfied if Sarah found some other decent man to marry. But since he's running out of time, he's terrified. He's well aware that he has no right to ask it of George, but since he knows his circumstances (and has known them for years), he really thinks he's making him a good offer and can't quite understand why George doesn't grab the opportunity at once.

George has never expected to marry for love; he's been told for years that he's not an eligible choice for any young woman, and even if he hadn't believed it at first he would have found out in those years he's been on the town. Which is why he's quite willing to settle for what he can get, as long as she's likeable, reasonably pretty and the kind of girl his family is going to accept. He has, in the past, missed one good opportunity for marriage - on purpose - because the bride his brother had chosen for him had a well-deserved reputation for shrewishness. Even with his low expectations regarding marriage, George wasn't prepared to accept that. Oh, and he IS interested in women, of course. It's just that Sarah is not his type. He thinks.